Hi Steven,
Thanks for getting back to me and for providing a minimalistic call of
mondoarchive. I have now been able to reproduce and can thus confirm
this bug.
The issue is indeed that special characters in filenames are not
escaped. The place this happens is the call to getfattr to get a list
Quoting Andree Leidenfrost [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have to think about how to properly escape characters in filenames
before they are being used in a shell command. (If you have any ideas,
please let me know.)
One possibility is to replace use of system() by fork() and exec().
The advantage
Hello,
Sorry to come back to you only now.
This bug has also an entry in the main mondo bug system
(https://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func=detailbugbug_id=7421group_id=2524)
The main issue is with popen system calls which do not provide any way
to protect against those types of chars :-(
Quoting Bruno Cornec [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello,
Sorry to come back to you only now.
This bug has also an entry in the main mondo bug system
(https://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func=detailbugbug_id=7421group_id=2524)
That report deals with the quote character ('), whereas I had trouble
with
Yup, just for the record and to explain the underlying mechanism:
- system and popen use 'sh -c'
- sh is really bash in the case at hand
- the only characters that need escaping within double-quotes in bash
are $, \ and ` (source: bash manpage under QUOTING)
I am not sure what other
Hi Steve,
Thanks a lot for reporting this problem.
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 10:53 -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
Package: mondo
Version: 2.08-2-3
Severity: normal
Hi,
I have a directory that contains files with weird characters in their
names (don't ask); e.g. ampersand (), quote (') or
Quoting Andree Leidenfrost [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Could you send a screenshot of the terminal window with mondoarchive
running when this appears. I have unsuccessfully tried to reproduce
this, maybe if I see where/when exactly it occurs that could help me.
Well, in the graphical mode, the error
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