Re: bash 4.x filters out environmental variables containing a dot in the name

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/21/12 7:45 AM, Ondrej Oprala wrote:
> Hi,
> unless this bug is already fixed in some way

I changed bash-4.1 to remember environment strings that are not valid shell
variable names, like those containing a dot, and add them to the
environment exported to commands.  They're not valid shell variable names,
so they won't cause shell variables to be created, but they will be passed
to commands.

If I recall correctly, the issue was that bash-3.2 allowed you to create
variables with invalid names, which you could not then do anything with, if
those names showed up in the environment.  Bash-4.0 stopped the creation
of the invalid shell variables.  Bash-4.1 compromised as described above.

You can test it by doing something like

env foo.bar=make bash-4.2

and then, in the instance of bash-4.2, run `printenv' or `env' and grep
for '^foo'

Chet

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