[5796] in Athena Bugs
handling of titles for logging questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Wed Aug 22 17:24:31 1990
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 90 17:24:18 -0400
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@MIT.Edu>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-olc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
No shell should be involved in the process of logging questions,
without sufficient safeguards to ensure that the shell doesn't do
strange things to the title.
I entered as a title for a question something like:
`sizeof' array function arguments; `whereis'
... and guess what showed up in the log? The title in the OLC-C
discuss meeting (for transaction [3153]) is
lishu: whereis'
If the shell needs to be used, the title should be put in single
quotes, and any "'" characters quoted with "\".
