Package: am-utils
Version: 6.1.5-12
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi,
There's a bug in the pawd utility from the am-utils package. When getcwd fails,
it writes "random" junk on the screen.
To reproduce:
$ mkdir /tmp/anewdirectory
$ cd /tmp/anewdirectory
$ rm /tmp/anewdirectory
$ pawd
Regards,
Yair.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500,
'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28mos-2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages am-utils depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 3.0.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libamu4 6.1.5-12 Support library for amd the 4.4BSD
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-4 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii libhesiod0 3.0.2-19 Project Athena's DNS-based directo
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.11-1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-16 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii portmap 6.0-9 RPC port mapper
ii ucf 3.0018 Update Configuration File: preserv
am-utils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages am-utils suggests:
ii am-utils-doc 6.1.5-12 automounter utilities documentatio
pn nis <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information excluded
--- amq/pawd.c.orig 2007-01-20 22:30:32.000000000 +0200
+++ amq/pawd.c 2009-04-27 15:51:29.000000000 +0300
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
if (argc == 1) {
wd = getawd(tmp_buf, sizeof(tmp_buf));
if (wd == NULL) {
- fprintf(stderr, "pawd: %s\n", tmp_buf);
+ perror("pawd");
exit(1);
} else {
fprintf(stdout, "%s\n", wd);
