Bug 223223

Summary:	www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.59: missing argument causes infinite loop
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	2008.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin von Gagern 2008-05-22 15:55:11 UTC

A command like "thunderbird -d" causes mozilla-launcher to loop endlessly. The reason is that "-d" expects the debugger as a second argument, and tries to consume both with a "shift 2". Absence of that argument is not detected, though, and according to the bash info page, shift N for N > $# doesn't change the list of positional arguments. So all arguments that expect a value should check there is indeed a second argument, and if not report an error and die.

Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2010-09-16 13:03:08 UTC

mozilla-launcher has been completely retired.