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2018-03-22parser: Add syntax stack for recursive parsingHerbert Xu
Without a stack of syntaxes we cannot correctly these two cases together: "${a#'$$'}" "${a#"${b-'$$'}"}" A recursive parser also helps in some other corner cases such as nested arithmetic expansion with paratheses. This patch adds a syntax stack allocated from the stack using alloca. As a side-effect this allows us to remove the naked backslashes for patterns within double-quotes, which means that EXP_QPAT also has to go. This patch also fixes removes any backslashes that precede right braces when they are present within a parameter expansion context, and backslashes that precede double quotes within inner double quotes inside a parameter expansion in a here-document context. The idea of a recursive parser is based on a patch by Harald van Dijk. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2018-03-22parser: use pgetc_eatbnl() in more placesHarald van Dijk
dash has a pgetc_eatbnl function in parser.c which skips any backslash-newline combinations. It's not used everywhere it could be. There is also some duplicated backslash-newline handling elsewhere in parser.c. Replace most of the calls to pgetc() with calls to pgetc_eatbnl() and remove the duplicated backslash-newline handling. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2018-03-22builtin: Greater resolution in test -nt / test -otMartijn Dekker
Op 07-03-18 om 15:46 schreef Martijn Dekker: > Op 06-03-18 om 09:19 schreef Herbert Xu: >> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:30:02AM +0200, Petr Skočík wrote: >>> would you be willing to pull something like this? > [...] >>> I could use greater resolution in `test -nt` / `test -ot`, and st_mtim >>> field is standardized under POSIX.1-2008 (or so stat(2) says). >> >> Sure. But your patch is corrupted. > > Fixed patch attached. > > But I wouldn't apply it as is. My system does not have st_mtim. So I > think it needs a configure test and a fallback to the old method. Here's an attempt to make that happen. See attached. - M. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2018-03-10mystring: fix "Illegal number" on FreeBSD & macOS for x=; echo $((x))Martijn Dekker
Op 07-03-18 om 06:26 schreef Herbert Xu: > Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org> wrote: >> >>> Since base is always a constant 0 or a constant 10, never a >>> user-provided value, the only error that strtoimax will ever report on >>> glibc systems is ERANGE. Checking only ERANGE therefore preserves the >>> glibc behaviour, and allows the exact same set of errors to be detected >>> on non-glibc systems. >> >> That makes sense, thanks. > > Could you resend your patch with this change please? OK, see below. - M. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2018-03-10expand: 'nolog' and 'debug' options cause "$-" to wreak havocMartijn Dekker
Op 29-03-17 om 20:02 schreef Martijn Dekker: > Bug: if either the 'nolog' or the 'debug' option is set, trying to > expand "$-" silently aborts parsing of an entire argument. > > $ dash -o nolog -c 'set -fuC; echo "|$- are the options|"; \ > set +o nolog; echo "|$- are the options|"' > | > |uCf are the options| > $ dash -o debug -c 'set -fuC; echo "|$- are the options|"; \ > set +o debug; echo "|$- are the options|"' > | > |uCf are the options| This turned out to be easy to fix. The routine producing the "$-" expansion failed to skip options for which there is no option letter, but only a long-form name. In dash, 'nolog' and 'debug' are currently the only two such options. Patch below. - Martijn Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2018-03-10histedit: fix build with musl libcBaruch Siach
musl libc defines the optreset BSD extension only in getopt.h. This fixes the following build failure: histedit.c: In function 'histcmd': histedit.c:220:2: error: 'optreset' undeclared (first use in this function) optreset = 1; optind = 1; /* initialize getopt */ ^~~~~~~~ Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2018-03-10expand: Remove dependency on fmatch.h if it does not exitRink Springer
[ Ugh; forgot to attach patch - apologies, I need more coffee ] Dear all, Attached is a trivial patch that removes the assumption that fnmatch.h is available - the configure script already checks for fnmatch(3) and supplies its own implementation if necessary, but fnmatch.h is always included. Let me know what you think. Regards, Rink Do not assume we can include fnmatch.h Signed-off-by: Rink Springer <rink@rink.nu> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2018-03-10input: Fix here-document redirection with vi/emacs onHarald van Dijk
On 27/06/17 16:29, Zando Fardones wrote: > Hello, > > I think I've found a bug when using the here-document redirection in > an interactive shell. What basically happens is that you can't see the > command output if you set the "vi" or "emacs" options. That's not quite what happens: the here-document contents got lost, so there is no command output to see. Nice find. The problem is that getprompt() is implicitly called by el_gets(). This messes with the memory used by the parser to store the here-document's contents. In the non-emacs/vi case, the prompt is explicitly written by setprompt(), which wraps the getprompt() call in a pushstackmark()/popstackmark() pair to restore the state so that parsing can continue. But when getprompt() is called by el_gets(), it knows nothing about this. The whole call to el_gets() can be surrounded by another pushstackmark()/popstackmark() pair to solve the problem, as attached. Cheers, Harald van Dijk Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2018-03-10man: Small cleanup for Command Line EditingLarry Hynes
Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 03:53:26PM +0100, Larry Hynes wrote: >> src/dash.1, under Command Line Editing, states: >> It's similar to vi: typing <ESC> will throw you into command >> VI command mode. >> - There appears to be no need for both occurrences of 'command' >> - I can't see a reason for VI to be capitalised >> - 'will throw you into' seems a little... enthusiastic >> Following diff changes it to >> It's similar to vi: typing <ESC> enters vi command mode. >> diff --git a/src/dash.1 b/src/dash.1 >> index 8b8026d..f35d89d 100644 >> --- a/src/dash.1 >> +++ b/src/dash.1 >> @@ -2232,7 +2232,7 @@ enabled, sh can be switched between insert mode and command mode. >> The editor is not described in full here, but will be in a later document. >> It's similar to vi: typing >> .Aq ESC >> -will throw you into command VI command mode. >> +enters vi command mode. >> Hitting >> .Aq return >> while in command mode will pass the line to the shell. > I agree. If you're changing things here anyway, I suggest getting rid of > the contraction as well (changing It's to It is). The fairly formal > style of man pages avoids contractions, just like it avoids "you". > The reference to the "later document" can probably be removed as well, > since said document does not exist yet after many years. Hi Revised diff, below, expands the contraction, deletes reference to 'later document' and changes 'place' to 'places' in the following: The command ‘set -o vi’ enables vi-mode editing and place sh into vi insert mode. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2018-03-10builtin: describe_command - fix incorrect pathHarald van Dijk
Hi, On 26/05/17 09:04, Youfu Zhang wrote: > $ PATH=/extra/path:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin \ >> sh -xc 'command -V ls; command -V ls; command -Vp ls; command -vp ls' > + command -V ls > ls is /bin/ls > + command -V ls > ls is a tracked alias for /bin/ls > + command -Vp ls > ls is a tracked alias for (null) > + command -vp ls > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > describe_command should respect `path' argument. Looking up in the hash table > may gives incorrect index in entry.u.index and finally causes incorrect output > or SIGSEGV. True, but only when a path is passed in. If the default path is used, looking up in the hash table is correct, and printing tracked aliases is intentional. If it's desirable to drop that feature, then it should be dropped completely, code shouldn't be left in that can no longer be used. But it's possible to keep it working: how about this instead? Signed-off-by: Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2018-03-10trap: Globally rename pendingsigs to pending_sigDenys Vlasenko
This variable does not contain "sigs" (plural). It contains either 0 or (one) signal number of a pending signal. For someone unfamiliar with this code, "pendingsigs" name is confusing - it hints at being an array or bit mask of pending singnals. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> CC: dash@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-09-23Release 0.5.9.1.Herbert Xu
2016-09-23expand - Fix dangling left square brackets in patternsHerbert Xu
When there is an unmatched left square bracket in patterns, pmatch will behave strangely and exhibit undefined behaviour. This patch (based on Harld van Dijk's original) fixes this by treating it as a literal left square bracket. Reported-by: Olof Johansson <olof@ethup.se> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-09-02builtin: Fix echo -n early terminationHerbert Xu
The commit 7a784244625d5489c0fc779201c349555dc5f8bc ("[BUILTIN] Simplify echo command") broke echo -n by making it always terminate after printing the first argument. This patch fixes this by only terminating when we have reached the end of the arguments. Fixes: 7a784244625d ("[BUILTIN] Simplify echo command") Reported-by: Luigi Tarenga <luigi.tarenga@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-09-02builtin: Fix handling of trailing IFS white spacesHerbert Xu
The read built-in does not handle trailing IFS white spaces in the right way, when there are more fields than variables. Part of the problem is that this case is handled outside of ifsbreakup. Harald van Dijk wrote a patch to fix this by moving the magic into ifsbreakup itself. This patch further reorganises the ifsbreakup loop by having only one loop over the whole string. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Tested-by: Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>
2016-09-02eval: Return status in eval functionsHerbert Xu
The exit status is currently clobbered too early for case statements and loops. This patch fixes it by making the eval functions return the current exit status and setting them in one place -- evaltree. Harald van Dijk pointed out a number of bugs in the original patch. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-09-02jobs: Handle string-based job descriptorsStephen Kitt
When looking for a job using a string descriptor, e.g. fg %man the relevant loop in src/jobs.c only ever exits to the err label. With this patch, when the end condition is reached, we check whether a job was found, and if so, set things up to exit correctly via gotit. Multiple matches are already caught using the test in the match block. Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-09-02trap: Implement POSIX.1-2008 trap reset behaviourHerbert Xu
Jonathan Perkin submitted a patch to fix the behaviour of trap when the first argument is an integer. Currently it is treated as a command while POSIX requires it to be treated as a signal. This patch is based on his idea but instead of adding an extra argument to decode_signal I have added a new decode_signum helper. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-06-07eval: Fix exit status when calling eval/dot with no commandsHarald van Dijk
On 17/11/2015 03:18, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > Hello, > > a bug has been filed in the Debian BTS about dash not resetting the exit > status after sourcing an empty file with the dot command. [1] > > The following test echoes "OK" with bash and "fail" with dash > > #!/bin/sh > > echo > ./empty > false > > . ./empty && echo "OK" || echo "fail" > > A similar bug in dash has been discussed and addressed in 2011 [2], but > it looks like the solution has been only partial. > > The version of dash I tested is the current git master branch, commit > 2e58422. > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/777262 > [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash/531 The bug described there was about empty files. While the fix has been applied and does make dash handle empty files properly, your test doesn't use an empty file, it uses a file containing a single blank line. Unfortunately, the single blank line gets parsed by dash as a null command, null commands don't (and shouldn't) reset the exit status, and the fix you link to doesn't handle this because it sees a command has been executed and saves the exit status after executing that command as the exit status to be used by ".". I think the easiest way to fix this is to prevent null commands from affecting status in cmdloop, as attached. An alternative could be to change the outer if condition to exclude n == NULL, but I didn't do that because the change of job_warning and clearing of numeof make sense to me even for null commands. Besides, when debug tracing is enabled, null commands have a visible effect that should remain. Note that this fixes the problem with . but the same problem can be present in other locations. For example, false eval " " && echo OK || echo Fail used to print Fail, and needed the same modification in the evalstring function to make that print OK (included in the attached patch). There may be other similar bugs lurking. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-06-06man: Document ulimit -vGioele Barabucci
Document that `ulimit` can set the `RLIMIT_AS` limit (virtual memory) with the `-v` flag. Fixes: https://bugs.debian.org/78556 Reported-by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> Signed-off-by: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-06-06shell: Fix build on Solaris 9Jonathan Perkin
Ensure dash can build in a default Solaris 9 or older environment: - Execute scripts with $SHELL rather than /bin/sh, the latter does not support e.g. "if ! .." used by mkbuiltins. - /bin/awk does not support ?: syntax, use explicit statements instead. - /bin/nl requires no spaces between options and arguments. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-06-06jobs: Don't attempt to access job table for job %0Tobias Klauser
If job %0 is (mistakenly) specified, an out-of-bounds access to the jobtab occurs in function getjob() if num = 0: jp = jobtab + 0 - 1 Fix this by checking that the job number is larger than 0 before accessing the jobtab. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-06-06builtin: Reject malformed printf specifications with digits after '*'Patrick Brown
Dash doesn't notice when a format string has digits following a * width specifier. $ dash -c 'printf "%*0s " 1 2 && echo FAIL || echo OK' %10s FAIL $ bash -c 'printf "%*0s " 1 2 && echo FAIL || echo OK' bash: line 0: printf: `0': invalid format character OK $ mksh -c 'printf "%*0s " 1 2 && echo FAIL || echo OK' printf: %*0: invalid conversion specification OK With this patch dash complains about the malformed specifications. $ ./src/dash -c 'printf "%*0s " 1 2 && echo FAIL || echo OK' ./src/dash: 1: printf: %*0: invalid directive OK Fixes: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779618 Originally-by: Patrick Brown <opensource@whoopdedo.org> Forwarded-by: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-06-06Release 0.5.9.Herbert Xu
2015-08-13builtin: Reset t_wp_op in testcmdHerbert Xu
The global variable t_wp_op needs to be reset every time testcmd is called or it may cause incorrect parsing of the arguments. Reported-by: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2015-06-11man: Fix description of getopts when last argument reachedFelix Dietrich
The description of getops in the manual incorrectly states that var will be set to "--" when no arguments remain. In fact it will be set to "?". Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2015-06-11builtin: Clear LC_ALL in mkbuiltinsFredrik Fornwall
In mkbuiltins LC_COLLATE is set, but since "The value of the LC_ALL environment variable has precedence over any of the other environment variables starting with LC_" (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/envvar.html), this has no effect when LC_ALL is set. This breaks when having e.g. LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 during make, which causes the test case dash -c : to fail, probably due to broken ordering in builtins.c. The patch corrects that by clearing LC_ALL. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2015-01-05input: Allow two consecutive calls to pungetcHerbert Xu
The commit ef91d3d6a4c39421fd3a391e02cd82f9f3aee4a8 ([PARSER] Handle backslash newlines properly after dollar sign) created cases where we make two consecutive calls to pungetc. As we don't explicitly support that there are corner cases where you end up with garbage input leading to undefined behaviour. This patch adds explicit support for two consecutive calls to pungetc. Reported-by: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> Reported-by: Juergen Daubert <jue@jue.li> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2015-01-05input: Move all input state into parsefileHerbert Xu
Currently we maintain a copy of the input state outside of parsefile. This is redundant and makes reentrancy difficult. This patch kills the duplicate global states and now everyone simply uses parsefile. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2015-01-05input: Remove HETIOHerbert Xu
It hasn't been possible to build HETIO for over ten years. So let's just kill it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2015-01-05input: Make preadbuffer staticHerbert Xu
The function preadbuffer should be static as it's only used in input.c. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2015-01-05expand: Fixed "$@" expansion when EXP_FULL is falseHerbert Xu
The commit 3c06acdac0b1ba0e0acdda513a57ee6e31385dce ([EXPAND] Split unquoted $@/$* correctly when IFS is set but empty) broke the case where $@ is in quotes and EXP_FULL is false. In that case we should still emit IFS as field splitting is not performed. Reported-by: Juergen Daubert <jue@jue.li> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-12-26builtin: create builtins.c properly on old cppkabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp
Encontered this on ancient gcc-2.95.3 environment; src/builtins.def.in -> src/builtins.def generation emitted ^ $ lines (likely by /* */), which where NOT ignored by src/mkbuiltins and generating bogus builtins.c. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-12-26man: Clarify two redirection mechanismsStéphane Aulery
Close Debian Bug #501566 Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-11-17[BUILTIN] Fix "test -x" as root on FreeBSD 8Jonathan Nieder
POSIX.1-2008 §4.4 "File Access Permission" sayeth: If execute permission is requested, access shall be granted if execute permission is granted to at least one user by the file permission bits or by an alternate access control mechanism; otherwise, access shall be denied. For historical reasons, POSIX unfortunately also allows access() and faccessat() to return success for X_OK if the current process is privileged, even when the above condition is not fulfilled and actual execution would fail. On the affected platforms, "test -x <path>" as root started returning true on nonexecutable files when dash switched from its own emulation to the true faccessat in v0.5.7~54 (2010-04-02). Work around this by checking the permissions bits when mode == X_OK and geteuid() == 0 on such platforms. Unfortunately the behavior seems to vary from one kernel version to another, so we cannot just check the behavior at compile time and rely on that. A survey of some affected kernels: - NetBSD's kernel moved to the sane semantics in 1997 - OpenBSD's kernel made the same change in version 4.4, three years ago - FreeBSD 9's kernel fixes this but hasn't been released yet It seems safe to only apply the workaround on systems using the FreeBSD kernel for now, and to push for standardization on the expected access()/faccessat() semantics so we can drop the workaround altogether in a few years. To try it on other platforms, use "./configure --enable-test-workaround". Reported-by: Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org> Analysis-by: Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-11-17[MAN] Document redirection file descriptor limitationStéphane Aulery
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-11-17[MAN] Correct typo in manual pageStéphane Aulery
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-10-30[PARSER] Catch variable length expansions on non-existant specialsHerbert Xu
Currently we only check special variable names that follow directly after $ or ${. So errors such as ${#&} are not caught. This patch fixes that by moving the is_special check to just before we print out the special variable name. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-10-28[PARSER] Simplify EOF/newline handling in list parserHerbert Xu
This patch simplifies the EOF and new handling in the list parser. In particular, it eliminates a case where we may leave here-documents unfinished upon EOF. It also removes special EOF/newline handling from parsecmd. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-10-28[PARSER] Removed unnecessary pungetc on EOF from parserHerbert Xu
Doing a pungetc on an EOF is a noop and is only useful when we don't know what character we're putting back. This patch removes an unnecessary pungetc when we know it's EOF. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-10-27[BUILTIN] Handle -- in dotcmdHerbert Xu
This patch adds a nextopt call in dotcmd in order to handle --. Reported-by: Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-10-27[BUILTIN] Simplify echo commandHerbert Xu
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-10-27[BUILTIN] Optimise handling of backslash octals in printfHerbert Xu
This patch removes the duplicate octal handling for %b by reusing the existing code in conv_escape. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-10-27[BUILTIN] Use error instead of warnx for fatal errors in printfHerbert Xu
This patch replaces uses of warnx where we abort with error since the effect is the same. The exit status however changes from 1 to 2. Non-fatal errors where we continue are unchanged. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-10-27[BUILTIN] Remove getintmax in printfHerbert Xu
This patch removes getintmax and moves its functionality into getuintmax in order to reduce code duplication. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-10-27[BUILTIN] Remove unnecessary restoration of format string in printfHerbert Xu
Currently we try to preserve the format string which is stored in argv after temporarily modifying it. This is unnecessary as it's only ever used once. This patch gets rid of it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-10-27[OUTPUT] Add ifdefs around MEM_OUT handling in outmemHerbert Xu
MEM_OUT is only used by forkless backtick processing which we do not currently support. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-10-27[OUTPUT] Add likely tag in outmemHerbert Xu
The branch in outmem where the string fits in the buffer is the common case and is now marked as likely. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-10-27[INPUT] Replace open-coded flushall in preadbufferHerbert Xu
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-10-27[BUILTIN] Handle embedded NULs correctly in printfHerbert Xu
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379227 On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:48:38PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > Package: dash > Version: 0.5.3-3 > Severity: normal > > hi > > here are the examples > > $ bash -c 'echo -n -e "A\0102C\00D\0E" | hexdump -c' > 0000000 A B C \0 D \0 E > 0000007 > > $ /bin/echo -n -e "A\0102C\00D\0E" | hexdump -c > 0000000 A B C \0 D \0 E > 0000007 > > $ zsh -c 'echo -n -e "A\0102C\00D\0E" | hexdump -c' > 0000000 A B C \0 D \0 E > 0000007 > > $ dash -c 'echo -n "A\0102C\00D\0E" | hexdump -c' > 0000000 A B C > 0000003 > > and also > > $ dash -c 'echo -n "ABC\0DEFGH" | hexdump -c' > 0000000 A B C > 0000003 > > As you see, dash 's builtin echo truncates the output at the first \0 > > a. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7 > Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > Versions of packages dash depends on: > ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > > dash recommends no packages. > > -- debconf information: > * dash/sh: false > > -- > Andrea Mennucc > "E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Tonino Carotone) This patch fixes handling of embedded NULs using an approach similar to the one taken by NetBSD. In particular, we first determine the length of the output string, and then use a sequence of Xs of the same length as input to the underlying C printf to determine the amount of leading and trailing padding. Finally we replace the Xs with the actual string before writing it out. In order to print out the temporary string containing Xs and padding, a new helper xasprintf is added. Unlike asprintf though, our xasprintf prints to the ash stack rather than using straight malloc memory. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>