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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 22:34:20 -0400
From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@...e.edu>
To: "Kobrin, Eric" <ekobrin@...mai.com>,
        "dwheeler@...eeler.com" <dwheeler@...eeler.com>
CC: chet.ramey@...e.edu, oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,
        solar <solar@...nwall.com>, lcamtuf <lcamtuf@...edump.cx>,
        fweimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Healing the bash fork

On 9/29/14, 6:06 PM, Kobrin, Eric wrote:

> What is the motivation to not store executable code (functions) differently from standard variables?

What would you use for such a store, considering the environment is the
only portable way to pass this information from one process to another in
the general case, and support the current set of use cases?

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