Bug 488934

Summary:	ksh does not declare shell variables with hyphen
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Component:	ksh	Assignee:	Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	5.4	CC:	drepper, kvolny, rvokal, tao
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Ksh removed variables from the environment if their names contained certain characters, for example, a hyphen or a space. Now, although ksh does not use environment variables with names that contain these characters, it keeps them for sub-processes.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	464156	Environment:
Last Closed:	2009-09-02 09:10:48 UTC	Type:	---
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Comment 3 Ruediger Landmann 2009-05-19 05:57:54 UTC

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Ksh removed variables from the environment if their names contained certain characters, for example, a hyphen or a space. Now, although ksh does not use environment variables with names that contain these characters, it keeps them for sub-processes.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 09:10:48 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1256.html