On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:28:59 -0700, Jason Miller wrote:
> Gentoo linux, GNU bash, version 5.0.18(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
>
> On the above vesion of bash, the following script will not run the echo
> command and print an error. On bash 4.4 it appears to treat the ${!foo}
> the same as e
On 9/30/20 12:28 AM, Jason Miller wrote:
> Gentoo linux, GNU bash, version 5.0.18(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
>
> On the above vesion of bash, the following script will not run the echo
> command
> and print an error. On bash 4.4 it appears to treat the ${!foo} the same as
> expanding an u
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions
-fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches
-specs=/usr/li
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 5:53 PM Michael Green wrote:
> The included short script when run with the following command results
> in execve "E2BIG (Argument list too long) errors".
>
> * The number of arguments can be tuned down to "seq 1 23694" and it
> still occurs, but any lower and it disappears
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 09:12:30AM +0200, Michael Green wrote:
> seq 1 4 | xargs ./bash_bug
>
> BEGIN: bash_bug
> --
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> . "exists_or_not"
> export A123456789012345="${BASH_ARGV[*]}"
> mkdir -p /tmp/foobar
> perl -E 'say "hello world"' 'f
On 9/30/20 3:12 AM, Michael Green wrote:
> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 17
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> The included short script when run with the following command results
> in execve "E2BIG (Argument list too long) errors".
The argument list includes the size of the env
On September 30, 2020 8:24:01 AM Ilkka Virta wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 5:53 PM Michael Green wrote:
The included short script when run with the following command results
in execve "E2BIG (Argument list too long) errors".
* The number of arguments can be tuned down to "seq 1 23694" a
On Sep 30 2020, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> It might be worth asking lkml to lift this restriction
You will have bad luck with that. The limit has been introduced for
security reasons.
Andreas.
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On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:19:34 -0400 Chet Ramey wrote:
...
> I explained the reasoning in
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-11/msg00165.html
...
The reasoning is 100% sound, but would it make sense to add the old behavior to
a compat option? I'm not at all familiar with the dec
