Package: linux-wlan-ng
Version: 0.2.4+svn20060808-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The check for hotplug or not inside /etc/wlan/shared uses [ -x ]
on the output from a cat command that potentially is empty.
This will return "true" if the cat output is empty:
[ -x "" ] returns false, but
[ -x ] returns true, and
[ -x `cat /dev/null` ] returns true as well.
Adding double quotes around the cat output will make the test
correctly return false when there is no hotplug binary.
This bug was reported in Ubuntu, https://launchpad.net/bugs/50138
but will there cause an error, instead of silently return true.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages linux-wlan-ng depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii udev 0.093-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii wireless-tools 28-1 Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel
Versions of packages linux-wlan-ng recommends:
pn linux-wlan-ng-doc <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
--- shared.orig 2006-08-22 13:36:39.000000000 +0200
+++ shared 2006-09-05 00:00:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
if [ ! -n "$WLAN_UDEV" ] ; then
if [ -f /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug -a \
- -x `cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug` -a \
+ -x "`cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug`" -a \
-f /etc/hotplug/wlan.agent ] ; then
HAS_HOTPLUG=y
else
