Bug 25556 – Gentoo Mozilla (and MozillaFirebird) launcher script fails to escape spaces

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Zhen Lin 2003-07-30 00:51:09 UTC]

In the mozilla script:

function open_mail() {
    if [ "${ALREADY_RUNNING}" -eq "1" ]; then
      exec $MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM 'xfeDoCommand(openInbox)' \
        2>/dev/null >/dev/null
    else
      exec $MOZ_PROGRAM $MOZ_LANG $*
    fi
}
                                                                               
                                                               
function open_compose() {
    if [ "${ALREADY_RUNNING}" -eq "1" ]; then
      exec $MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM 'xfeDoCommand(composeMessage)' \
        2>/dev/null >/dev/null
    else
      exec $MOZ_PROGRAM $MOZ_LANG $*
    fi
}

In the above 2 functions, $* expands, unescaping any spaces in the command. "$@"
should be used instead.

In the MozillaFirebird script:
${FIREBIRD_PATH}/MozillaFirebird $@

$@ expands like $* unless it is quoted as "$@".

GEnerally, the way to work around escaping problems is to use HTTP escapes
instead, '%20' instead of ' ', for example.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-03-18 19:37:08 UTC]

I don't know why this hasn't been fixed before now!  It's an obvious bug, I've fixed it.  The firefox script is very different from the original scripts and I don't believe it suffers from this bug.