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Date:      Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:56:23 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
To:        Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org,  dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 4deb9760a9d8 - main - rc: Disable pathname expansion when calling run_rc_command()
Message-ID:  <rujrzyjbpsjm5oospxgqdyk3vrnncnq4dsacbocmrpk33t4m4z@mizjfi3znywh>
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References:  <202506121820.55CIKQTQ097365@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <aFLJikN4w-yzbBJa@nuc>

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On Wed 18 Jun 10:13, Mark Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 06:20:26PM +0000, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> > The branch main has been updated by hrs:
> > 
> > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=4deb9760a9d84d5861ee45162ffebe83f13503b8
> > 
> > commit 4deb9760a9d84d5861ee45162ffebe83f13503b8
> > Author:     Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
> > AuthorDate: 2025-06-12 18:19:32 +0000
> > Commit:     Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2025-06-12 18:19:32 +0000
> > 
> >     rc: Disable pathname expansion when calling run_rc_command()
> >     
> >     Variables for command-line options like $foo_flags can contain characters
> >     that perform pathname expansions, such as '[', ']', and '*'.  They were
> >     passed without escaping, and the matched entries in the working directory
> >     affected the command-line options.  This change turns off the expansion
> >     when run_rc_command() is called.
> >     
> >     While this changes the current behavior, an invocation of a service
> >     program should not depend on entries in the working directory.
> 
> This also turns off globbing for /etc/rc.local, which broke one of my
> scripts.  Was that intentional?  If so, we should really document it in
> RELNOTES at the very least.

This broke nuageinit which rely on globbing to in nuageinit_start, that this
change also broke.

So many downstream CI are now broken, due to this change.

Best regards,
Bapt



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