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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kconfig: place git SHA1 in .config output if in SCM
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 05:29:50PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > + env = getenv(SRCTREE);
> > + if (env) {
> > + sprintf(cmdline,
> > + "%s/scripts/setlocalversion %s 2> /dev/null",
> > + env, env);
> > + slv = popen(cmdline, "r");
>
> I suspect this does various bad things if there are spaces or special
> characters in $SRCTREE.
>
> It would be a lot safer to uses fork/execve rather than something
> that interprets a shell command line.
>
> Of course, I didn't check that all our old users of SRCTREE are safe
> either, but at least docproc.c (the one I _did_ check) uses 'execvp()' and
> 'fopen()' that both take real filenames, not a shell string.

Well, we certainly don't want or need bash's "$", "``", and other
interpretations in this case. I will update and send out a new patch.

Hmmm... It has been one good long time since I have used pipe(), dup2(),
exec*(), and friends. In happy contrast to last time, some of the man
pages now seem to have nice examples. ;-)

Thanx, Paul


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