Package: dash Version: 0.5.4-12 Severity: important The dash's built-in echo command expands \nnn-style sequences, like this:
$ echo 'a\165b' aub No other shells I know does that. The result is *very* difficult to find bugs elsewhere, hence the severity. With introduction of dash as default /bin/sh, the importance of this issue increases. See also #379227 and #489705 which are the same issue. Most modern shells has an option to turn on that escape sequence expansion, -e, and recognizes more escape sequences (like \xnn hexadecimal sequences, \n\r\t symbolic sequences and so on). See also http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125509847805427&w=2 - an un-imaginable, or even impossible bug in kernel which, after almost a week (and a difficult week it was) turned out to be wrong interpretation of `echo -ne' (it's non-standard so there's no requiriment to support this option in dash, yet most other modern shells supports it as mentioned above), and also http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125511756906369&w=2 -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (60, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dash depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * dash/sh: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
