Build script for poplog command-tool does not handle 'funny' characters - Githubissues

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Build script for poplog command-tool does not handle 'funny' characters #97

Open sfkleach opened 3 years ago

sfkleach commented 3 years ago

If the values of environment variables contain anything other than plain text on a single line, things can go wrong.

Newlines are not handled properly
Non-printing characters are not handled properly
Backslashes are not handled properly (I will solve this one)

This is parked as tech debt because:

We will sort it out when we transform makePoplogCommander.sh into a Python script and we can see that coming.
There are no plausible circumstances under which any Poplog environment variable contains a newline.
It's not cheap to solve and not an active issue.