Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer wrote:
>> You seem to be implying that using shell-quote-argument will uphold the
>> invariant that the code is safe against injection.  I'm asking for
>> explicit confirmation of that.
>
> Yes, it's safe. In contrast, the version you proposed is not safe for
> really weird csh-like shells, where it can mishandle '!'.

It doesn't attempt to work for any shells other than POSIX.

Not mentioning this strongly enough in the documentation is a bug; I'll
fix it.  Determining it automatically is probably impossible I'm afraid,
since even on a foreign system one might have a Unix shell installed
through Cygwin, if I'm not mistaken.

Taylan