From e1e6f073a9f5d7c3183cb8096fb24a42c28ba36b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Sauthoff Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 17:23:31 -0500 Subject: Improve gcore shell quoting and portability The gcore shell script (gdb/gcore.in) doesn't quote its variables enough. For example, trying to write a core file with - say - a space ungraciously fails like this: $ gcore -o 'foo bar' 6270 /usr/bin/gcore: line 92: [: foo: binary operator expected gcore: failed to create foo bar.6270 Similarly, one can inject meta characters like * (by accident) that may yield unexpected results, e.g. as in: $ gcore -o foobar '*' This change fixes these issues in several places. Aso, since the script uses array syntax, the patch changes the the shell in the first line from `/bin/sh` to /bin/bash`. POSIX doesn't specify the array syntax for shell, thus, the script doesn't work on systems where /bin/sh is linked to - say - dash. Since the source gcore.in already is processed by a pre-processor one could even auto-detect the path to bash and thus dynamically generate the first line. For systems where bash isn't available via /bin/bash. But I think this would be overkill and /bin/bash is good enough as most systems probably have it. gdb/ChangeLog: PR gdb/22888 * gcore.in: Quote variables and switch interpreter to bash. --- gdb/gcore.in | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'gdb/gcore.in') diff --git a/gdb/gcore.in b/gdb/gcore.in index b7f57cd..233c00d 100644 --- a/gdb/gcore.in +++ b/gdb/gcore.in @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#!/bin/sh +#!/usr/bin/env bash # Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ name=core dump_all_cmds=() while getopts :ao: opt; do - case $opt in + case "$opt" in a) - case $OSTYPE in + case "$OSTYPE" in linux*) dump_all_cmds=("-ex" "set use-coredump-filter off") dump_all_cmds+=("-ex" "set dump-excluded-mappings on") @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ fi # Check if the GDB binary is in the expected path. If not, just # quit with a message. -if [ ! -f "$binary_path"/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@ ]; then +if [ ! -f "$binary_path/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@" ]; then echo "gcore: GDB binary (${binary_path}/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@) not found" exit 1 fi @@ -93,16 +93,16 @@ fi rc=0 # Loop through pids -for pid in $* +for pid in "$@" do # `