ls -l segfault + [PATCH]

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Mon Mar 19 11:22:37 UTC 2007


On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 12:03:07PM +0100, Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote:
> I tried to figure out the code in tryexec. Can anyone explain how this will not exit the shell for a safe applet? Or does that exit(a->main()) something different than explained in man 3 exit?

It won't exit the shell because the function is running in a child process,
not the main one.

> Another funny thing is that ls -lF /bin does not crash!
> 
> Does that explain why adding LS_COLORS to the environment is not visible in the ls output?
> 

I don't know the internals of busybox's ls to comment on that.

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lfr
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