This imports a new version of the code to import environment
variable values that was sent to Red Hat from upstream in 2014.
It avoids importing environment variables whose names are not valid
in the shell language, as it would be impossible to change or unset
them. However, they stay in the environment to be passed to child
processes.
Prior discussion: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1147645
Original patch: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ksh/blob/642af4d6/f/ksh-20120801-oldenvinit.patch
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c:
- env_init(): Import new, simplified code to import environment
variable name/value pairs. Instead of doing the heavy lifting
itself, this version uses nv_open(), passing the NV_IDENT flag to
reject and skip invalid names.
- Get rid of gotos and a static var by splitting off the code to
import attributes into a new env_import_attributes() function.
This is a better way to avoid importing attributes when
initialising the shell in POSIX mode (re: 00d43960
- Remove an nv_mapchar() call that was based on some unclear
flaggery which was also removed by upstream as sent to Red Hat.
I don't know what that did, if anything; looks like it might have
had something to do with typeset -u/-l, but those particular
attributes have never been successfully inherited through the
environment.
(Maybe that's another bug, or maybe I just don't care as
inheriting attributes is a misfeature anyway; we have to put up
with it because legacy scripts might use it. Maybe someone can
prove it's an unacceptable security risk to import attributes
like readonly from an environment variable that is inherently
vulnerable to manipulation. That would be nice, as a CVE ID
would give us a solid reason to get rid of this nonsense.)
- Remove an 'else cp += 2;' that was very clearly a no-op; 'cp' is
immediately overwritten on the next loop iteration and not used
past the loop.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/variables.sh:
- Test.
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