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by ericfrederich 2490 days ago
/* wordexp is also rife with security "challenges", unless you pass it WRDE_NOCMD it must support subshell expansion, and even if you don't beause it has to support so much of the standard shell (all the odd little variable expansion options for example) it is hard to do without a subshell). It is probbably just plan a Bad Idea to call in anything setuid, or executing remotely. */