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Re: bash 4.3.48(1) and repo: processing of commands halts at first semicolon

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Chet:

Thank you for the pointers. I tried to read through the "repo" code all 
morning. I don't really know Python, but what I can see is that:

1) It appears to not invoke any specific shell. It seems to fork a new 
process, which would duplicate whatever shell it started with.

2) It has a "DoWork" function that manipulates stdin and stdout, 
processing commands and their outputs. I did not see it trying to break 
up long strings of commands.

I am debugging what appears to be a problem on our end. Using the "-x" 
setting you suggested, it looks like an intermediate script on my end, 
which for reasons unknown to me only runs for 4.3.48, is breaking up the 
multi-command string into a single string followed by tokens that I 
presume would be treated as extraneous arguments, rather than additional 
commands.

I am going to investigate things further on my end; you can put this 
matter on hold for now. Thank you for your help and sorry for the noise.

Tow


On 07/03/2018 09:59 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/3/18 10:34 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 7/2/18 5:58 PM, toww wrote:
>>
>>> Bash Version: 4.3
>>> Patch Level: 48
>>> Release Status: release
>>>
>>> Description:
>>> There seems to be a new incompatibility or incorrect string parsing in how
>>> the Google "repo" utility interacts with the bash shell. Previously I could
>>> invoke the "repo" command, passing to it a string to execute multiple
>>> commands separated by semicolons (';' characters), and all commands would
>>> execute. Now with the latest bash 4.3.38, only the first command executes,
>>> and processing stops at the semicolon.
>> It would help to see the exact set of commands that repo uses to invoke the
>> shell, the options it passes to shell invocation. It would help more to
>> have a reproducer that doesn't involve `repo'.
> You could also check whether repo is invoking /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash,
> and, if so, whether bash is installed as /bin/sh.
>

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Re: bash 4.3.48(1) and repo: processing of commands halts at first semicolon toww <toww@nvidia.com> - 2018-07-03 13:52 -0700

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