Re: Thoughts on Shellshock and beyond

[John Haxby <john.haxby () oracle com>]

On 09/10/14 00:53, Tim wrote:
> Well, I think we can all think of a few options, some more portable
> than others.  The current namespace change is one option, obviously,
> but one might go a different route with more time to design it
> initially.  Other ideas:
>
> 1) A single dedicated environment variable for all function exports.
> e.g.:
>
> BASH_FUNCTIONS='f() { ... }
> g() { ... }
> ...
> '

You don't need export -f for that either and you don't need anything
special in the child:  just do «eval "$BASH_FUNCTIONS"» which also has
the benefit of making it quite plain that you're living dangerously.

jch