From:             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Operating system: Unix
PHP version:      4.0.6
PHP Bug Type:     Unknown/Other Function
Bug description:  Bad escape sequence

When safe_mode is set to On, it is impossible to pass a variable that contains a 
string with a space in it as an argument to any system() like function. The following 
script shows the problem:

<?
   $somevar = "this is a test";
   exec("echo.sh $somevar", $return);
   echo $return[0];
?>

echo.sh being a simple shell script that echoes back anything that we feed it. The 
following PHP script will display 'this' instead of 'this is a test'. I tried 
backslashing every chars of the variable by writing a simple function but spaces seems 
not to be correctly passed to the shell script. The same script executed when 
safe_mode is set to off works perfectly...

Veins - [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=11767&edit=1



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