Bug 2140566
| Summary: | /usr/bin/which fails for long path | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Reporter: | Pradeep Jagtap <prjagtap> |
| Component: | which | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | VERIFIED --- | QA Contact: | CS System Management SST QE <rhel-cs-system-management-subsystem-qe> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | Šárka Jana <sjanderk> |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 8.6 | CC: | efedin, than |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | which-2.21-20.el8 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
the bug is triggered when user executes the 'which' command
in directory with very long path and the consequence is that
'which' aborts with error "Can't get current working directory"
To fix this issue it is use PATH_MAX instead hardcoded 256
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | Type: | Bug | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description of problem: ======================= /usr/bin/which fails for long path Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): which-2.21-17.el8.x86_64 How reproducible: ==================== Steps to Reproduce: ------------------- 1. Create Directory with long path # mkdir -p /tmp/1111111111222222222233333333334444444444555555555566666666667777777777888888888899999999990000000000/1111111111222222222233333333334444444444555555555566666666667777777777888888888899999999990000000000/11111111112222222222333333333344444444445555555555 2. Change directory to the created one # cd !$ 3. Execute which command # which cd Actual results: ================= Fails with error: Can't get current working directory Expected results: =================== Should show below results $ which cd /usr/bin/cd Additional info: ================= In RHEL 7,8 and 9) ------------------- The buffer is 256 in which.c static char home[256]; static char cwd[256]; static char result[256];