Re: [PATCH] alias: aliascmd: refuse uninvokable aliases

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> wrote:
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> 
> See standards quote within, but the fun bit is:
>  alias "a'b=c" "ls&id=cd"; alias
> outputs
>  ls&id='cd'
>  a'b='c'
> neither of which is What You Want, and also you can't invoke them
> because you need to escape the quote/&/whatever, which disables
> alias processing. Forbid the minimum broken set.
> 
> For reference's sake, here's a test driver:
>  #include <stdio.h>
>  #include <stdlib.h>
>  #include <string.h>
>  #include <sys/wait.h>
>  #include <unistd.h>
>  int main(int _, char ** argv) {
>        putenv("LC_ALL=C");
>        char val[] = "alias 'aQb=echo a' && alias";
>        unsigned char * vp = strchr(val, 'Q');
>        for(unsigned i = 0; i <= 0xFF; ++i) {
>                *vp = i;
>                if(!vfork()) {
>                        execl(argv[1], "sh", "-c", val, (char *)NULL);
>                        _exit(-1);
>                }
>                int r;
>                wait(&r);
>                fprintf(stderr, "%02x: %d\n", i, WEXITSTATUS(r));
>        }
>  }
> 
> zsh  refuses nothing
> dash refuses 09 0a 20 22 24 26 27 28 29 3b 3c 3e 5c 60 7c
> bash refuses dash + 2f
> mksh refuses bash + 23 + 2a + 3f + 5e + <20 + >7c
> ksh  refuses bash + 2a + 3f + 5b + 7b + 7d
> 
> Fixes: https://bugs.debian.org/758542

The main objective of dash is to try to be minimal, so I'm not
going to take this patch.

Thanks,
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