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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2023-04-21 19:07:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2023-04-21 19:13:52 +0100 |
| commit | 6bab375973e62e9fcc0b41451d637134073e3007 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d4f445e56585b7f2c482ab939c39884d37c63c3 /src/install.c | |
| parent | f6229adb09b9ace9bd0034a2c228fcee224c0563 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-6bab375973e62e9fcc0b41451d637134073e3007.tar.gz | |
install: support stripping files with a leading hyphen
* src/install.c (strip): Prepend "./" to file names with a leading "-".
* tests/install/strip-program.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Reported in https://bugs.debian.org/1034429
Diffstat (limited to 'src/install.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/install.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/install.c b/src/install.c index 3aa6ea92b..272dfcb8f 100644 --- a/src/install.c +++ b/src/install.c @@ -502,8 +502,13 @@ strip (char const *name) error (0, errno, _("fork system call failed")); break; case 0: /* Child. */ - execlp (strip_program, strip_program, name, NULL); - die (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("cannot run %s"), quoteaf (strip_program)); + { + char const *safe_name = name; + if (name && *name == '-') + safe_name = file_name_concat (".", name, NULL); + execlp (strip_program, strip_program, safe_name, NULL); + die (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("cannot run %s"), quoteaf (strip_program)); + } default: /* Parent. */ if (waitpid (pid, &status, 0) < 0) error (0, errno, _("waiting for strip")); |