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From: Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@spodhuis.org>
To: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix segfaults with exec options
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:31:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120117033142.GA85725@redoubt.spodhuis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ty3v92gw.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org>

On 2012-01-16 at 14:55 +0100, Frank Terbeck wrote:
> I've CC:ed Phil, who appears to be the original author of the code
> because I don't know the code very well and `execcmd()', being the 1000+
> lines function it is, intimidates me a little...

Erk.  Sorry.  :(  *blush*  Stupid mistake on my part.

> Maybe he (or someone else) has an idea about how to fix this at a more
> fundamental level. To me, my fix just plugs some holes with duct tape.

The "options for keywords" stuff is all a bit of a hack, since
fundamentally they're not supposed to take options, but bash does and
various tools assume you can ssh with certain command-line constructs,
so these were put in for interoperability.

Sorry for the lack of corner case analysis on my part.
-- 
https://twitter.com/syscomet


      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-17  3:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-16 13:55 Frank Terbeck
2012-01-16 14:49 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-01-17  3:31 ` Phil Pennock [this message]

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