** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: New => Fix Committed
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: Fix Committed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of नेपाली भाषा समायोजकहरुको समूह, which is subscribed to Xenial. Matching subscriptions: Ubuntu 16.04 Bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732962 Title: apport uses sys.argv instead of named arguments Status in Apport: Fix Committed Status in apport package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in apport source package in Trusty: Won't Fix Status in apport source package in Xenial: New Status in apport source package in Bionic: New Status in apport source package in Cosmic: Won't Fix Status in apport source package in Disco: Fix Released Bug description: data/apport which processes core files expects a certain quantity of arguments in a specific order. This ended up causing an issue with some security updates where we were trying to support a new version of apport on a host system and one inside a container. Here's something of an example: 347 # Normal startup 348 if len(sys.argv) not in (5, 6): 349 try: 350 print('Usage: %s <pid> <signal number> <core file ulimit> <dump mode> [global pid]' % sys.argv[0]) 351 print('The core dump is read from stdin.') We could not maintain backwards compatibility because "global pid" is an optional argument and "dump mode" was a new argument. So if there were five arguments its possible the last one was "dump mode" (no global pid) or "global pid" (no support for dump mode). Its possible to use strings in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern so we could use those and have apport accept named arguments e.g: $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern |/usr/share/apport/apport --pid=%p --signal=%s --core-size=%c --dump-mode=%d --global-pid=%P ['/home/bdmurray/source-trees/apport/artful/data/apport', '-- pid=5870', '--signal=11', '--core-size=0', '--dump-mode=1', '--global- pid=5870'] Tyler said "that's probably a nice cleanup to make no matter what because the magic arg ordering is dangerous". To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1732962/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~group.of.nepali.translators Post to : group.of.nepali.translators@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~group.of.nepali.translators More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp