Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer wrote:
>>> >No case has been presented that there's a significant problem with
>>> >it. The argument that one might want to run an executable named "if"
>>> >is, as you say, a trivial one, i.e., not significant.
>> Yes, a serious case has been presented multiple times.
>
> I must have missed it then, because all I remember are the cases (1)
> of running /bin/if (which is trivial and is not a realistic example),
> and (2) of installations with nonstandard shells (a problem that
> shqq--quote-string does not fix). It has been a long thread; quite
> possibly I missed something.

Yeah, you missed the part about risk of code injection. :-)

Taylan