Re: Patch #1 to Gawk 3.1 now available

[Aharon Robbins]

> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Patch #1 to Gawk 3.1 now available
> From: Guillaume Cottenceau <address@hidden>
> Date: 09 May 2002 21:32:35 +0200
>
> Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Patch #1 to GNU Awk (gawk) 3.1 is now available. Gawk is the GNU project's
> > version of the AWK programming language.
>
> Debian authored a security patch on 3.1.0 that we also include in
> our distribution of binary gawk, and it seems it's not in 3.1.1
> yet.
>
> Do you judge the patch not valid or something?

I still have that patch.  At the time I received it I had bigger fish to
fry, and I also feel that the problem was considerably more theoretical
than real.  Also, the point about portability / availability of mktemp(1)
is an issue.

I will probably go with Paul's patch that does everything in shell
variables, for 3.1.2.

Arnold