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From: Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>
Subject: Re: How to pass parameters containig options from variables
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:55:32 +0200
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On 25-9-2012 18:48, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
 > On Sep 25, 2012, at 10:28, bd@bc-bd.org wrote:
 >>> eval $DAEMON $ARGS should work.
 >> That did it, thank you.
 > ... but always beware of "eval" if you don't absolutely
 > control the argument string.  A single semicolon and
 > someone owns your process.
For a configuration file that gets sourced, the person creating the 
configuration file already owns the process, so there is no added 
security by avoiding eval here.