Your message dated Wed, 19 Apr 2017 11:27:26 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#733501: dash: ignore -p argument to command (POSIX compliance issue) has caused the Debian Bug report #733501, regarding dash: ignores -p argument to command (POSIX compliance issue) to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dash Version: 0.5.7-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream dash claims to be a POSIX specific shell, that said it doesn't support all mandatory options for the 'command' utility. Quoting the POSIX specification [1]: | The following options shall be supported: | | -p | Perform the command search using a default value for PATH that is | guaranteed to find all of the standard utilities. dash seems to ignore this option and use PATH from the environment variable: | $ PATH="" /bin/dash -c "command -pv ls" ; echo $? | 127 | $ touch hello | $ chmod +x hello | $ PATH=".:$PATH" /bin/dash -c "command -pv hello" ; echo $? | ./hello | 0 bash uses the default PATH value as mandated by the specification: | $ PATH="" /bin/bash -c "command -pv ls" ; echo $? | /bin/ls | 0 | $ touch hello | $ chmod +x hello | $ PATH=".:$PATH" /bin/bash -c "command -pv hello" ; echo $? | 1 [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/command.html -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dash depends on: ii debianutils 4.4 ii dpkg 1.17.5 ii libc6 2.18-0experimental0 dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dash Version: 0.5.8-1 On 2013-12-29 13:39 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Package: dash > Version: 0.5.7-3 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > dash claims to be a POSIX specific shell, that said it doesn't support > all mandatory options for the 'command' utility. Quoting the POSIX > specification [1]: > > | The following options shall be supported: > | > | -p > | Perform the command search using a default value for PATH that is > | guaranteed to find all of the standard utilities. > > dash seems to ignore this option and use PATH from the environment > variable: Only in when -p and -v are combined, it seems. > | $ PATH="" /bin/dash -c "command -pv ls" ; echo $? > | 127 > | $ touch hello > | $ chmod +x hello > | $ PATH=".:$PATH" /bin/dash -c "command -pv hello" ; echo $? > | ./hello > | 0 This has been fixed in dash 0.5.8 by commit 65ae84b3d67425e16b85 ("[BUILTIN] command: allow combining -p with -v")[1]. I have verified it works correctly now. Cheers, Sven 1. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/commit/?id=65ae84b3d67425e16b85273e566d06ae942dcce9
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