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Re: BUG in /bin/bash


From: dreamer () garrison inetcan net (Digital Dreamer)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 19:19:59 -0600


On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Red Barchetta wrote:

Their test string "bash -c 'ls\377who'" gave this output on my Solaris 2.5
system:

        bash: ls377who: command not found

Can anyone verify that this is really a problem?

Ernie Pistor


The following program demonstrated it on this Linux machine.

-> snip

#include <stdio.h>

void main(void) {
  system("ls\377w");
}

-> snip



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