Bug 57785 – irssi returns no output for the exec cmd

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description André-Sebastian Liebe 2004-07-20 15:43:38 UTC]

When I tried to "/exec uname -a" irssi returns a blank line and if I tried to "exec -o uname -a" I got an error message that there are to few arguments to send this text to server (again a blank line)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
gentoo with any amd64 2.6.7-dev kernel
start irssi
exec a cmd
Actual Results:  
I got a blank line instead of the normal cmd output

Expected Results:  
show me the cmd output

[Comment 1 Sven Wegener 2004-07-20 15:52:15 UTC]

Please reopen with the following information:
- output of emerge --info
- version of irssi you're using
- if applicable, scripts you have loaded

The /exec command works fine for me, with and without -o

[Comment 2 Sven Wegener 2004-07-20 15:58:50 UTC]

Please also test if uname -a works in a normal console and if /exec in irssi
doesn't work with any other command.

[Comment 3 André-Sebastian Liebe 2004-07-21 02:02:44 UTC]

Created attachment 35857 [details]
emerge --info output

[Comment 4 André-Sebastian Liebe 2004-07-21 02:03:28 UTC]

Created attachment 35858 [details]
output for the uname (example) cmd

[Comment 5 André-Sebastian Liebe 2004-07-21 02:03:51 UTC]

Created attachment 35859 [details]
irssi version output

[Comment 6 André-Sebastian Liebe 2004-07-21 02:05:12 UTC]

currently I've no scripts loaded yet

[Comment 7 Sven Wegener 2004-07-21 17:17:21 UTC]

This is an amd64 issue and has already been filed upstream.
See http://bugs.irssi.org/?do=details&id=85

As I currently don't have access to an amd64 system, I can't test and fix this.
Could someone from our amd64 porting team have a look at this one, please.

[Comment 8 André-Sebastian Liebe 2004-07-23 14:55:56 UTC]

could you please add the patch from the irssi-bugs page to the amd64 ebuild ?

--- src/fe-common/core/fe-exec.c 11 Jul 2004 16:54:11 -0000 1.23
+++ src/fe-common/core/fe-exec.c 14 Jul 2004 12:04:47 -0000 1.24
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@
static void sig_exec_input_reader(PROCESS_REC *rec)
{
char tmpbuf[512], *str;
- unsigned int recvlen;
+ gsize recvlen;
int err, ret;

g_return_if_fail(rec != NULL); 

[Comment 9 Sven Wegener 2004-07-23 15:40:22 UTC]

Commited to CVS. Thanks for reporting and reminding me that there's an upstream
patch available.