From: Evgeny Kapun <abacabadabacaba@gmail.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>,
1132887@bugs.debian.org, util-linux@vger.kernel.org,
wanbingjiang@webray.com.cn
Subject: Re: Bug#1132887: script: "script file -c command" stopped working
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 16:36:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc9deabe-7529-440d-bb42-67740f47dfc9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x7m64hxjjld7rkfjwuta75hzmj3f6en57mpvdfttzdliebdqxn@ym5mhuzim23o>
On 4/7/26 16:26, Karel Zak wrote:
> I have created bugfix for this, see https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/pull/4201
It seems that this fix doesn't handle the case where -- is used as an
argument to an option. For example, `script -I --` before v2.42 would
interpret -- as an argument to -I, but the pre-scanning in that PR would
break it.
The value can come from a variable, e.g. `script -I "$VAR"` and `script
--log-in "$VAR"` will usually work, but break if $VAR is --. Similarly,
`script "-I$VAR"` will usually work, but break if $VAR is the empty
string. The only approach without special cases seems to be `script
"--log-in=$VAR"`, but it doesn't seem to be very popular.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-08 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <88e0b54d-3c86-46ca-ab3f-e116073216d6@gmail.com>
2026-04-07 8:17 ` Bug#1132887: script: "script file -c command" stopped working Chris Hofstaedtler
2026-04-07 13:26 ` Karel Zak
2026-04-08 13:36 ` Evgeny Kapun [this message]
2026-04-10 8:42 ` Chris Hofstaedtler
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