From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: liliana.prikler@student.tugraz
Cc: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>, 23118@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23118: Duplicate entries in various environment variables
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:51:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsfz3wwx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6ca9bc2b5bb96b0ea6740c3412d6aa4379d553e9.camel@student.tugraz.at> (Leo Prikler's message of "Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:58:39 +0100")
Hi,
[...]
> More generally, this can become an issue when environment variables
> reach a certain size (and has led to bug reports in Guix before, which
> have since been fixed). POSIX mandates a syntax, that would allow
> removing already present components first (see [1]), but I can hardly
> imagine what monstrosities we would need to cook up to do this
> reliably. Not to mention, that some otherwise POSIX-compliant shells
> might not implement that syntax (correctly).
Why are we talking about POSIX here? Our wrap-program procedure makes
use of Bash; we could make use of its features to filter duplicates,
right? Unless I'm missing something.
--
Thanks,
Maxim
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-08 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-26 3:59 bug#23118: Duplicate entries in various environment variables Chris Marusich
2016-03-26 18:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-28 17:53 ` Leo Famulari
2020-12-03 10:58 ` Leo Prikler
2022-10-08 1:51 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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