Re: bsdutils: /usr/bin/script doesn't wait for command to finish before exiting

[Fergus Henderson]

On Thu Jul 31 19:56:18 BST 2008, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 18:58 -0400, Fergus Henderson wrote:

> Package: bsdutils
> Version: 1:2.12r-4ubuntu6.1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> 
> The script command fails to wait for the command that it is executing to finish.

> For example, the command
> 
>   /usr/bin/script -c "sleep 1; echo foo" < /dev/null; echo bar
> 
> produces the output
> 
>   Script started, file is typescript

>   Script done, file is typescript
>   bar
>   foo

It is the I/O redirection from /dev/null which is the culprit.  Without
it the commands run in sequence correctly.  With the /dev/null redirect,

it appears the subshell forked by 'script' runs in the background from
the parent shell.

The _culprit_ is the buggy code in script.c, for which I provided a patch
(see my original email at <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2008-July/154664.html>).

You're right that the bug only shows up if stdin is redirected, but that does not mean that the I/O redirection is the "culprit", just that the I/O redirection happens to trigger the bug.

Now, if only someone would actually apply my patch!  The bsdutils package that contains /usr/bin/script appears to be effectively ownerless.  I have no idea who to send the patch to.
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Fergus Henderson <fer...@google.com>

[Nils Kassube]

Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > The _culprit_ is the buggy code in script.c, for which I provided a
> > patch
>
> (see my original email at <
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2008-July/154664.html>).
>

> Now, if only someone would actually apply my patch! The bsdutils
> package that contains /usr/bin/script appears to be effectively
> ownerless. I have no idea who to send the patch to.

If you send the bug report / patch to this list it is usually lost. Please
file a bug at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/> and include your patch.

Nils

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