Re: wordexp(3)

[Florian Weimer <fweimer () redhat com>]

On 02/11/2015 01:17 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2015/02/10 20:27, Solar Designer wrote:
> > (x5) <@worr> OpenBSD wins the wordexp(3) contest, by refusing to implement it altogether.
>
> It might be of interest to know that we've only got patches in 2 ports
> as a result of this: celestia and filezilla (we're using globs instead
> of wordexp for these; I'm not aware of any negative feedback relating
> to these patches).

There is software out there which automatically uses a shell-based
implementation if the system does not provide wordexp.  With this in
mind, it makes sense to provide the interface even if you dislike it
(same thing with strlcpy).

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security