Bug 27613 – ncftp's shell escape gives chaos

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Klaus-J. Wolf 2003-08-30 11:47:18 UTC]

If you use ncftp-3.1.5's shell escape, somehow the command gets lost and a
random character strings gets passed to system() or alike.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start ncftp
2. type "!ls"
3. 

Actual Results:  
Unreadable characters, and then, usually, ": no such command".

Expected Results:  
Execution output of the command (in our case: the content of the current directory).

This bug was present in RedHat 7.2 (AFAIR). The bug was fixed by RedHat with a
patch, while there was no upstream fix available.

[Comment 1 Theofilos Intzoglou 2003-09-06 16:14:56 UTC]

I cannot reproduce the bug you are talking about :-/ I started ncftp and typed "!ls" and it gives me the correct output!

ncftp's version:

$ qpkg -I -v ncftp
net-ftp/ncftp-3.1.5-r1 *

[Comment 2 Theofilos Intzoglou 2003-09-06 17:33:01 UTC]

Can you please post the output of the "emerge --info" command?

[Comment 3 Klaus-J. Wolf 2003-09-07 09:13:58 UTC]

Sorry, I'm not able to make emerge --info since the machine's gone (will return by November, so I hope). If not reprodrucible, close bug please.

[Comment 4 Theofilos Intzoglou 2003-09-07 11:37:24 UTC]

I wasn't able to reproduce it but there were a couple of people in #gentoo-bugs that could and I'm trying to find the cause for that bug. It seems to have to do with the CFLAGS and the -Os option.

[Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-10-07 16:43:21 UTC]

we need more info from people who can reproduce this reliably