From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 22:20:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50A516A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F9B243FE0 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:20:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8C5KGUp016094 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h8C5KGNV016093; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:20:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:20:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200309120520.h8C5KGNV016093@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Eugene Grosbein Subject: Re: bin/56558: [PATCH] locate(1) cannot be safely used with xargs(1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Eugene Grosbein List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 05:20:17 -0000 The following reply was made to PR bin/56558; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Eugene Grosbein To: FUJISHIMA Satsuki Cc: Eugene Grosbein , FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/56558: [PATCH] locate(1) cannot be safely used with xargs(1) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:12:18 +0800 FUJISHIMA Satsuki wrote: > > command | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 foo > would work for any commands, not limited to locate(1). It will break when filename contains '\n' that is allowed. Eugene Grosbein