Re: envvar's leaking into open()

2008-11-25 Thread devzero
i forgot to tell that it doesn`t happen with every locale. you have to set it like this to reproduce: vmhost:/usr/src/packages/SOURCES/bash-3.2 # locale LANG= LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAM

envvar's leaking into open()

2008-11-25 Thread devzero
hello, i made some observation by chance. bash 3.2 seems to leak environment variables into open() syscalls (older bash 2.0 does not show this behaviour) this may not be an issue here or do not any harm - but at least opening such non-existing files is nonsense and it really looks like a bug

Bug in bash 3.00.16 ?

2005-09-06 Thread devzero
Hello ! For some time now, I had a problem which I thought oracle was the reason for. Now I found, that it seems to be a Bash problem. I'm using GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i586-suse-linux) on SuSE 9.3 This is the "buggy behaviour": Whenever I "su - oracle" into the oracle account,