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authortjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-28 15:43:33 +0000
committertjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-28 15:43:33 +0000
commitd0c237fd3c8db61a5ea4108aed735fe3198d27e3 (patch)
tree722d06ac69ac84eda19b352a077d8f577f10583a /lib/libc
parent05e2475f947df5f8cf1163a7b0fec940fffe419d (diff)
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Document incorrect handling of multibyte characters due to limitations
of sh(1).
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/wordexp.37
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/wordexp.3 b/lib/libc/gen/wordexp.3
index 844059d..c3fb5e0 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/wordexp.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/wordexp.3
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 30, 2004
+.Dd July 29, 2004
.Dt WORDEXP 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -199,3 +199,8 @@ The
function attempts to detect input that would cause commands to be
executed before passing it to the shell
but it does not use the same parser so it may be fooled.
+.Pp
+The current
+.Fn wordexp
+implementation does not recognize multibyte characters, since the
+shell (which it invokes to perform expansions) does not.
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