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Bug 1128345 - chat issues with -E (environment variable substitution)
Summary: chat issues with -E (environment variable substitution)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ppp
Version: 7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Jaroslav Škarvada
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-08-09 10:09 UTC by giulioo
Modified: 2018-11-16 13:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-11-16 13:05:20 UTC
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Description giulioo 2014-08-09 10:09:48 UTC
Description of problem:
 
chat has a lot of issues handling -E option and report/clear report/abort/clear
abort statements.
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ppp-2.4.5-33.el7.x86_64
 
Steps to reproduce:
I'm making an example for REPORT, the same applies to ABORT, CLR_REPORT and
CLR_ABORT.
 
1. Create a file with this inside
        REPORT "$v1"
        "$v1" ""
and call it chat.script
 
2. Run
        $ export v1=abc

3. Run chat w/o "-E", as expected $v1 doesn't get substituted:
 
        $ chat  -vs -f chat.script >/dev/ttyS0 </dev/ttyS0
        report ($v1)
        expect ($v1)
 
4. Run chat with -E, $v1 is expanded for the expect string but not for REPORT
   I think this is a bug.
 
        $ chat  -E -vs -f chat.script >/dev/ttyS0 </dev/ttyS0
        report ($v1)     <====== BUG, $v1 not expanded
        expect (abc)     <====== OK, $v1 expanded
 
5. Apply this quick and dirty patch
    --- ppp/chat/chat.c.orig    2005-11-26 19:30:31.000000000 +0100
        +++ ppp/chat/chat.c 2005-11-26 19:30:46.000000000 +0100
        @@ -1129,7 +1129,7 @@
            report_string[n_reports++] = s1;
 
            if (verbose)
        -       msgf("report (%v)", s);
        +       msgf("report (%v)", s1);
            return;
             }
 
6. Re-run chat w/ -E
 
        $ chat  -E -vs -f chat.script >/dev/ttyS0 </dev/ttyS0
        report (abc)    <==== SUCCESS
        expect (abc)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
- chat.c uses "clean()" to clean the strings and expand variables.
- for the 4 cases above, it cleans the string into a different variable
- the it uses the original variable instead of the new one
 
- also, all the 4 tests
    if (strlen(s1) > strlen(s)
  appear to be wrong, since it's normal for a string to increase in size due to
  variable expansion, ie:
 
        $ v1=abc     (abc is long as $v1)
        $ chat  -E -vs -f chat.script >/dev/ttyS0 </dev/ttyS0
        report ($v1)
        expect (abc)
        ^CSIGINT
 
        $ v1=abcd    (abcd is longer than $v1)
        $ chat  -E -vs -f chat.script >/dev/ttyS0 </dev/ttyS0
        Illegal or too-long REPORT string ('$v1')
        $

Comment 4 Tomáš Hozza 2018-11-16 13:05:14 UTC
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Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla Rules Engine 2018-11-16 13:05:20 UTC
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