Opened 17 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#180 closed defect (fixed)

libc: spawnvpe adds default extention (.exe) preventing execution of scripts without extension

Reported by: bird Owned by: bird
Priority: normal Milestone: libc-0.6.6
Component: libc Version: 0.6
Severity: blocker Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Stupid bug that shows up in cases like echo file-to-compress | xargs /usr/lib/portage/bin/ecompress.

Change History (6)

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by bird

Status: new → assigned

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by bird

Milestone: libc-0.6.5 → libc-0.7

comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by dmik

Resolution: → duplicate
Status: assigned → closed

I'm closing this one in favor of #300 as it contains a patch and also provides some related discussion.

comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by bird

Milestone: libc-0.7 → libc-0.6.6
Resolution: duplicate
Status: closed → reopened

comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by bird

Looking at the crazy buffer handling in _path and _searchenv, I decided to re-implement them with proper buffer overflowing, more flexible extension search, and avoiding mistaking directories for files. Committed the 0.6 code in r3903.

comment:6 Changed 9 years ago by bird

Resolution: → fixed
Status: reopened → closed

Forwardported to trunk in r3904.

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