Re: LSB Spec 1.0 Criticism
>From alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Thu Jul 5 19:57:39 2001
>> >Think about mail _client_ applications. Elm, mutt etc do need to know where
>> >mail lives and do write back to it
>>
>> The traditional way of sending mail from dumb programs is to call /bin/mail
>And 99% of the callers who do this are buggy. /bin/mail contains arbitary
>system dependant processing for stuff like "~"
>The number of web forms still around today where
>Hello
>~!some command
>in the content box does terrible things is rather high
Maybe you are talking about a non conforming /bin/mail
The official UNIX /bin/mail has no single occurence of the character
'~' in the source. It is a dumb program specially designed to do be used
to deliver mail from even dumber programs.
It looks like Linux breaks the rules and links Mail to /bin/mail.
Jörg
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