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Subject: bin/20567: /bin/sh `type' builtin bug
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>Number:         20567
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       /bin/sh `type' builtin bug
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Aug 12 12:00:03 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David A. Holland
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
eecs.harvard.edu
>Environment:

	4.0-RELEASE, appears to also affect -current.

>Description:

	The `type' builtin of sh, if given an absolute pathname,
	prints it concatenated with the first entry in $PATH.

>How-To-Repeat:

	sh -c 'PATH=/bin:/sbin; type /bin/ls'

	prints "/bin/ls is /bin//bin/ls"

>Fix:

Patch:

--- exec.c.dist	Sat Aug 12 14:42:28 2000
+++ exec.c	Sat Aug 12 14:44:06 2000
@@ -884,7 +884,11 @@
 			entry.cmdtype = cmdp->cmdtype;
 			entry.u = cmdp->param;
 		}
-		else {
+		else if (argv[i][0]=='/') {
+			/* Absolute path. */
+			out1fmt(" is %s\n", argv[i]);
+			continue;
+		} else {
 			/* Finally use brute force */
 			find_command(argv[i], &entry, 0, pathval());
 		}

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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