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Date:      Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:33:03 +0100
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To:        Brian Jackson <b.k.jackson@verizon.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>, Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.7 changes to /bin/sh?
Message-ID:  <20021127173303.GO77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
In-Reply-To: <ED10E066-0214-11D7-A9B1-000393C260B2@verizon.net>
References:  <20021127065640.GA20089@rot13.obsecurity.org> <ED10E066-0214-11D7-A9B1-000393C260B2@verizon.net>

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# b.k.jackson@verizon.net / 2002-11-27 09:31:33 -0500:
> On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 01:56  AM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >I already told you in the section of my mail you deleted.
> 
> No, it's the "& &&" construction, which is illegal and should never
> have been allowed.  Update to the latest version of the port and
> submit a PR if the bug persists.
> 
> Kris

    please, quote others correctly. this looks like you wrote this
    message with someone named Kris.

> I guess I didn't understand your answer (above) to the question "What 
> changed?".  If the port was broken from the get go, I think it was odd 
> that I only noticed that the database on my server wasn't starting 
> after my upgrade to 4.7 (which of course very well may have been the 
> case :)

    you guess right: you don't understand his answer. :) he says:

    "/bin/sh was broken up to 4.7 in that it allowed "& &&". the port
    that broke for you abused this bug; you can get rid of it by
    updating your ports tree. doing so will get you an updated version
    of the port in which the $PREFIX/etc/rc.d script was fixed to not
    rely on that buggy behavior."

    Kris, please correct me if I read that wrong.

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