Your message dated Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:15:37 -0500
with message-id <20110911191537.GA1099@elie>
and subject line Re: bash uses strcpy on overlapping strings
has caused the Debian Bug report #589084,
regarding bash: basename variable: PS1="\W \w " in /boot reports "bott /boot"
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Package: bash
Version: 4.1-3
Severity: normal
I'm not sure when this started occuring. \W which should report the
basename "boot" in /boot reports "bott":
$ export PS1="\W \w "
~ ~ cd /boot
bott /boot
I can't reproduce it on my Ubuntu machine which has "GNU bash, version
4.1.5(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)". "basename /boot" in a shell
also reports "boot", not "bott".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-rc5+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 5.7 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii dash 0.5.5.1-6 POSIX-compliant shell
ii debianutils 3.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
Versions of packages bash recommends:
ii bash-completion 1:1.2-2 programmable completion for the ba
Versions of packages bash suggests:
ii bash-doc 4.1-3 Documentation and examples for the
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/bash.bashrc changed [not included]
/etc/skel/.bash_logout [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
u'/etc/skel/.bash_logout'
-- no debconf information
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Version: 4.2-1~exp1
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
>> I noticed this with /anfs (becomes "afss" with \W) and it seems to occur only
>> for 4 and 5 letter directory names in /.
>
> This was fixed by bash 4.1 patch 10.
Seems to be fixed in experimental, too. Thanks, all.
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