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has caused the Debian Bug report #164663,
regarding rxvt: errors from 'rxvt -e' are not passed back to the user
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Package: rxvt
Version: 1:2.6.4-6
Severity: normal
Hi
I'm finding that running rxvt with a -e argument that requires a shell
to parse it causes rxvt to die with SIGSEGV or SIGCHLD (randomly, it
seems). For example,
rxvt -e "telnet uk"
fails but
rxvt -e /usr/bin/telnet uk
does not.
rxvt -e "bash" works fine, but
rxvt -e "bash -c top" does not.
rxvt -e "top" works, though. Strange, eh?
It does seem to be whenever rxvt invokes a shell to parse the -e
argument that the problems set in. You can get a couple of straces from
http://www.postnewspapers.com.au/~craig/rxvt-straces.tar.gz
if thats likely to be useful.
I've tried all the same commands in gnome-terminal and all work fine, so
it does seem to be rxvt-specific.
I've just realized, of course, that all the commands I've listed work
well if not quoted, so the issue appears to be in the parser for the -e
argument. Hrmm... looks -e is not supposed to be used with a quoted
string for an argument (whoops). Still, I've seen this usage before and
it might be an idea to identify it in the -e parser and complain (or
handle it) rather than silently failing.
Feel free to mail me if you need more info, and I'll see what
I can do (if you can't reproduce it that is).
Sorry to bother you if its an issue already covered, but I didn't see
anything in the BTS.
Craig Ringer
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux geek 2.4.19 #1 Mon Oct 7 10:07:10 WST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU
Versions of packages rxvt depends on:
ii base-passwd 3.4.1 Debian Base System Password/Group
ii libc6 2.2.5-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii xlibs 4.1.0-16 X Window System client libraries
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Thank you for your bug report. As rxvt has been replaced by rxvt-unicode in
Debian, I am closing this bug. If you can still reproduce this bug with urxvt,
please feel free to reopen this bug and reassign it to the rxvt-unicode package.
Best wishes,
Ryan
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