Re: Potential restricted bash escape by modifying history file

2020-05-01 Thread Chet Ramey
On 4/30/20 2:22 PM, Diffie wrote: > Bash Version: 5.0 > Patch Level: 11 > Release Status: release > > *Description:* > It is possible to write/append arbitrary content to files from a restricted > bash shell (with the privileges of the current user context) by tweaking the > HISTFILE variable,

Re: Local variable names clash with global read-only variable names.

2020-05-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 10:43:53PM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote: > This is a common issue in language design. The Perl language originally > only had "local" declarations that behaved the same way as bash local > declarations. But the above behavior got to be so much of a problem for > large progr