[net.unix-wizards] magic numbers and setuid shell scripts

tim@callan.UUCP (Tim Smith) (03/31/84)

#!/dev/person/you

  Setuid Bourne shell scripts may protect themselves against
strange values of IFS by starting out with the line

	IFS=

This will work even if IFS is set to something like `I' or `F'
because the shell does blank interpretation after it does
variable assignments and substitutions.

				Tim Smith
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