[557] in Athena Bugs
A bug with csh <--(please put the name of the program here)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Coppeto)
Tue Jul 26 14:51:10 1988
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 88 14:49:44 EDT
From: Tom Coppeto <tjcoppet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Program with which you had the problem:
Name of person who discovered the bug: Joseph Deck
Their Athena Login ID: deckjf
Name of consultant reporting bug: tjcoppet
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
environment variables beginning with '$' screw up getenv()
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Please describe the problem in detail (mention any necessary files or
commands that may be involved, on which machine the bug happened, and what
the program did that was wrong):
% setenv \$foo bar
% man csh
$foo=bar: is not an identifier
% unsetenv \$foo
% printenv \$foo
bar
% unsetenv foo
% printenv \$foo
bar
There doesn't seem to be a way to get rid of the $foo variable
and programs using getenv seem to barf.
