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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Cc: 22354@debbugs.gnu.org, bug-bash@gnu.org
Subject: bug#22354: Hash-bang line length
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:52:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4bt60zb.fsf__1083.29105792127$1452693205$gmane$org@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160113131902.GU27325@eeg.ccf.org> (Greg Wooledge's message of "Wed, 13 Jan 2016 08:19:02 -0500")

Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> skribis:

> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:25:03AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> The ???READ_SAMPLE_BUF??? macro in execute_cmd.c reads at most 80 bytes from
>> the hash-bang line.  This is less than the already-small 128-byte limit
>> in the Linux kernel¹ and can quite easily be hit².
>
> That's actually much bigger than one expects for shebang handling on
> any traditional Unix system.

Sure, but the fact that it’s smaller than that of the kernel Linux is
problematic: when a hash-bang line > 127 chars is encountered, ‘execve’
fails with ENOENT, so Bash’s fallback code is executed, fails as well,
but it prints a misleading error message with an even more truncated
hash-bang line.

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-13 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87lh7t7p4w.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-01-13 13:19 ` bug#22354: Hash-bang line length Greg Wooledge
     [not found] ` <20160113131902.GU27325@eeg.ccf.org>
2016-01-13 13:52   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
     [not found]   ` <87y4bt60zb.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-01-13 14:04     ` Greg Wooledge
2016-01-13 16:21     ` Chet Ramey
     [not found]     ` <20160113140441.GZ27325@eeg.ccf.org>
2016-01-13 16:23       ` Chet Ramey
     [not found]       ` <56967A06.8040104@case.edu>
2016-01-13 16:39         ` Greg Wooledge
     [not found]     ` <56967976.2080908@case.edu>
2016-01-13 17:41       ` Ludovic Courtès
     [not found]       ` <87vb6x2x7u.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-01-13 20:47         ` Chet Ramey
2016-01-13 16:18 ` Chet Ramey
2016-01-12  9:14 bug#22354: Test failure when running distcheck from out-of-tree build Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-01-13 10:25 ` bug#22354: Hash-bang line length Ludovic Courtès

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