When alias support is not configured, ash believes that command parameters
that look like dd's "if=/dev/zero" are requests to set a temporary
environment variable whilst dd is running, even though it appears after the
command name. This is caused by the re-use of the checkalias global variable
to indicate when both alias checking and environment variable checking. The
failure to reset this flag is due to the reset action being performed only
inside the feature check CHECK_ASH_ALIAS. Hence ash works as expected when
aliases are configured in, and fails when not.
Example script using 'date' with different settings of TZ:
# TZ=Europe/London
# export TZ
# date
Thu May 30 17:18:49 BST 2002
# TZ=America/New_York date
Thu May 30 12:19:10 EDT 2002
# date
Thu May 30 17:19:12 BST 2002
# date TZ=America/New_York
Thu May 30 12:19:30 EDT 2002 <----- wrong, should be BST time (or error!)
# date
Thu May 30 17:19:35 BST 2002
Attached is a patch against revision 1.52 of ash.c which moves the checks so
that checkalias is updated regardless of whether CONFIG_ASH_ALIAS is set.
With this patch applied, the command shown above which should generate an
error does generate an error.
I have tested this patch with the 'dd' command too and that now works
correctly.
xconnect helper routine which does:
-address and port resolving
-tries to connect to all resolved addresses until connected
-uses getaddrinfo, so works for IPv6 too
This patch also ports rdate, telnet, and wget to use the new
xconnect function. Thanks Bart!
IPV6 support to busybox. This patch does the following:
* Add IPv6 support to libbb
* Enable IPv6 interface address display
* Add IPv6 config option
* Adds ping6, an adaptation of the ping applet for IPv6
* Adds support routines for ping6:
- xgethostbyname2
- create_icmp6_socket
* Adds ifconfig support for IPv6
* Add support IPv6 to netstat
* Add IPv6 support to route
Thanks Bart!
control turned off" bug, console_setup() was called with a closed file
descriptor, setsid() inconsistancy, and silly string handling bugs. I have
modified his patch to allow the askfirst init actions to have a controlling
terminal.
trying to call 'insmod -q', which wasn't supported. Secondly, when modprobe
was fed blank lines from modules.dep, we ended up calling xstrndup(ptr, -1),
which with suitably bad results. David provided a patch to catch the blank
lines, and I have added insmod -q support. So modprobe should work again.
-Erik
still needs major attention (i.e. removal).
Removed references to uninitialized variables like progName,
smallMode, noisy, etc. Remove functions and code for handling "small"
decompression mode, since it is all unreachable. Remove
total_{in,out}* counters - they are never used. Remove panic()
function and assert_h and their uses because they are all for "should
never happen" circumstances. Replace internal malloc/free wrappers
with xmalloc and free. Remove conditional in if(foo)free(foo);
situations. Remove bogus
if (sizeof(int) != 4) {
return BZ_CONFIG_ERROR;
}
(...etc...) code and code for handling BZ_CONFIG_ERROR. Someone should
go through and change the applet to use well-defined types when
appropriate - it expects sizeof(short)==2 && sizeof(int)==4. Until
this commit these were explicitly checked for, and the applet would
exit if these types were not the right size. (I think this is wrong
even as an interim solution.)
With gcc 3.1 reduces size of binary on i386-linux by about 700 bytes.
Lightly tested.
