dhcpcd-discuss

I read dumplease output and expect it to be shell-parseable...

> On Oct 22, 2017, at 12:53 PM, Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 22/10/2017 18:11, neal.p.murphy wrote:
>> I don't recall any shell allowing a - in var names. But then, I could be thinking C.
> 
> No shell does.
> Because the hooks are shell scripts, this still makes sense.
> However, I could use env(1) to export the environment, but then variables would not be quoted correctly for shells.
> 
> With set
> classless_static_routes='0.0.0.0/0 10.73.2.1'
> 
> With env
> classless_static_routes=0.0.0.0/0 10.73.2.1
> 
> env doesn't care about how shell variables are called so it will export pretty much what it's given. All env cares about is the =
> 
> This might break applications which dump leases to file and expect them to be shell parseable, so I probably won't make that change.
> 
> Roy
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