Package: switchsh
Version: 0~20070801-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
It would be useful (and consistent with other utilities that call
external programs) if switchsh used execvp() instead of execv(), so
that things like "switchsh make" or
"switchsh dpkg -i <package_with_bashism_in_maintainer_script.deb> work.
Here is a patch for that:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- switchsh.c~ 2008-05-29 01:24:51.000000000 +0200
+++ switchsh.c 2008-10-28 16:38:39.000000000 +0100
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
if (setuid(getuid()) < 0)
err_sys("cannot drop UID 0");
- execv(*argv, argv);
+ execvp(*argv, argv);
err_sys("Can't exec %s", argv[0]);
}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages switchsh depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
switchsh recommends no packages.
switchsh suggests no packages.
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