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From: brian@apollo.COM (Brian Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: sr10 BSD 4.3 /bin/sh bug fix
Message-ID: <3ff6fae4.18e92@apollo.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 88 00:27:00 GMT
References: <17939@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: brian@apollo.COM (Brian Holt)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <17939@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> dj@dorsai.cognet.ucla.edu (David J. Wells) writes:
>
>ENVIRONMENT:	SR10.0 BSD 4.3
>DESCRIPTION:	/bin/sh recognizes the ksh variable ENV, so most Bourne
>		Shell scripts try to execute your ksh environment script
>		(typically ~/.kshrc).  Standard BSD 4.3 does not exhibit
>		this behavior.  Two examples of affected software are
>		Pnews and lint, both /bin/sh scripts.
>

This problem was noted after sr10 shipped.  It has been fixed in
sr10.1.   The Bourne Shell now looks for SHENV instead of ENV.

		=brian

Disclaimer:  I don't work on this stuff anymore, I just tend to keep my
ears open.
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