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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
	Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] system.3: Document bug and workaround when the command name starts with a hypen
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 2021 15:15:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210108141519.61501-1-alx.manpages@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210104180420.74092-1-alx.manpages@gmail.com>

man-pages bug: 211029
 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211029

Complete workaround
(it was too long for the page, but it may be useful here):

......

$ sudo ln \-s \-T /usr/bin/echo /usr/bin/\-echo;
$ cc -o system_hyphen -x c - ;

int
main(void)
{
    system(" -echo Hello world!");
    exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

$ ./system_hyphen;
Hello world!

Reported-by: Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
---
 man3/system.3 | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man3/system.3 b/man3/system.3
index 753d46f7d..ead35ab30 100644
--- a/man3/system.3
+++ b/man3/system.3
@@ -255,6 +255,26 @@ are not executed.
 Such risks are especially grave when using
 .BR system ()
 from a privileged program.
+.SH BUGS
+.\" [BUG 211029](https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211029)
+.\" [Glibc bug](https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27143)
+.\" [POSIX bug](https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1440)
+If the command name starts with a hyphen,
+.BR sh (1)
+interprets the command name as an option,
+and the behavior is undefined.
+(See the
+.B \-c
+option to
+.BR sh (1).)
+To work around this problem,
+prepend the command with a space as in the following call:
+.PP
+.RS 4
+.EX
+    system(" \-unfortunate\-command\-name");
+.EE
+.RE
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR sh (1),
 .BR execve (2),
-- 
2.29.2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-08 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-04 15:13 [RFC] system.3: Document bug when the command name starts with a hypen Alejandro Colomar
2021-01-04 15:54 ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2021-01-04 18:04   ` [PATCH] system.3: Document bug and workaround " Alejandro Colomar
2021-01-04 18:32     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-04 20:02       ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-08 14:15     ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2021-01-08 14:20     ` [PATCH v3] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-01-08 14:22     ` [PATCH v4] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-01-08 14:28       ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-18 15:28         ` Ping: " Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-18 15:37           ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-18 15:45             ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-18 15:58               ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-18 16:11                 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-18 15:36         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-18 15:35       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-05 13:23 ` [RFC] system.3: Document bug " Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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