Bug 193350 – dev-java/java-config-2.0.33-r1: launcher does not escape special chars in arguments

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Heinrich Nirschl 2007-09-21 17:19:19 UTC]

The script /usr/share/java-config-2/launcher/launcher.bash has a problem with arguments containing special characters like / " $ `

This causes strange errors for example in groovy when it is used with the -e option:

$ groovy -e 'println "Hello"'
Caught: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: Hello for class: script_from_command_line
        at script_from_command_line.run(script_from_command_line:1)
        at script_from_command_line.main(script_from_command_line)

I fixed it by replacing the loop starting in line 60 with this

# Rebuild arg list so it doesn't get messed up
for arg in "${@}"; do
        arg=${arg//\\/\\\\}
        arg=${arg//\`/\\\`}
        arg=${arg//\"/\\\"}
        arg=${arg//\$/\\\$}
        gjl_cmd_arg="${gjl_cmd_arg} \"${arg}\""
done

[Comment 1 Alistair Bush (RETIRED) 2008-01-20 07:38:52 UTC]

See http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/changeset?new=projects%2Fjava-config-2%405936&old=projects%2Fjava-config-2%405934
for changes.

[Comment 2 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2008-01-20 16:37:34 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> See
> http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/changeset?new=projects%2Fjava-config-2%405936&old=projects%2Fjava-config-2%405934
> for changes.
> 

You forgot java after the exec in the debug print

[Comment 3 Alistair Bush (RETIRED) 2008-01-21 03:45:40 UTC]

So I did

http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/changeset?new=projects%405941&old=projects%405936

[Comment 4 Alistair Bush (RETIRED) 2008-01-30 07:10:03 UTC]

Fixed in 2.1.4