Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 466204
tcsh parsing of /etc/sysconfig/lang.csh generates incorrect lstat calls
Last modified: 2015-03-04 18:56:38 EST
Description of problem: When starting a tcsh it parses /etc/sysconfig/lang.csh and when executing this line: eval `grep -v '^[:blank:]*#' $file | sed 's|\([^=]*\)=\([^=]*\)|setenv \1 \2|g' | sed 's|$|;|'` tcsh is calling lstat on: lstat on setenv lstat on LANG lstat on "en_US.UTF-8"; lstat on setenv lstat on SUPPORTED lstat on "en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"; lstat on setenv lstat on SYSFONT lstat on "latarcyrheb-sun16"; (generated from a printf before the lstat call in glob.c) Obviously this is incorrect and is not normally a problem, but when a new shell is invoked while cwd is in an automount directory this generates automount attempts which can spam the logs. tcsh 6.15 still shows a problem parsing this in context, though the /etc/sysconfig/lang.csh in more recent initscripts has changed so if LANG is already set this line of code is not executed.
nmurray, Any word on a fix for this? Just opened a ticket for RHEL5 and wanted to check in on status since it will effect both. This event sent from IssueTracker by cwyse issue 208860
Created attachment 355324 [details] fixed tcsh Here is the SRPM for tcsh with the patch from BZ498625 .
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