Re: Array importing in bash 4.3

[Chet Ramey <chet.ramey () case edu>]

On 9/29/14, 10:42 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > From: Florian Weimer <fweimer () redhat com>
> >
> > Note that if you ship 4.3, you might want to reevaluate a decision to
> > enable array variable import from the environment.
>
> I changed the subject because I'm sure this parenthetical comment got lost.
>
> Fortunately, in bash 4.3 (patchlevel 25), you cannot just -DARRAY_EXPORT
> and get array variable import/export.  The code doesn't compile, and if you
> fix that, it does not link, and if you fix that, well, you end up with the
> following issue.

That's a ton of trouble to go through just for this.  I don't have any
plans to enable array export.

> The array import/export feature allows one to export and import variables
> while preserving their array status.  Unfortunately, it enables this:
>
> $ env -i 'FOO=([$(echo broken > /dev/tty)]=a)' ./bash -c true
> broken
> ./bash: []=a: bad array subscript

That's actually how array assignment works.  The array index is run
through the shell word expansions, including command substitution, and
then the arithmetic expression evaluator to get the index.

Chet
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