Re: bash without importing shell functions from the environment

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Joey Hess writes ("Re: bash without importing shell functions from the environment"):
> Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > Thank you very much for doing this. I would love to see Debian
> > transition to having this facility disabled by default at some
> > point in the future.
> 
> Florian Weimer's patch doesn't go that far, instead environment
> variables have to have special BASH_FUNC_FOO() names before bash will
> process them as function imports.
> 
> Same result though; as of bash 4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u3 we don't have to
> worry about the shell script parser being run on every env var. So,
> the problem is fully solved AFAIK, and in a way that bypasses nearly all
> potential breakage.

Indeed.  Florian's fix is better.

Thanks,
Ian.