Re: [perl #30660][PATCH] Repeated spaces on shebang line stops option parsing

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:16:16AM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:43:55 +0200, Renée Bäcker
> <renee.baecker@smart-websolutions.de> wrote:

> > > Do you have an example of what this is solving? It seems a logical change to
> > > make, but I'm guessing as to what the problem is.
> > >   
> > 
> > Attached is a small script. Without this patch it just recognizes the -s
> > switch but not the -w switch.

Thanks. I used a variant in my test.

> > > That can be
> > >
> > >        while( isSPACE(*s) )
> > >          ++s;
> > >
> > > because isSPACE('\0') is going to be false.
> > >
> > >
> > > But is using isSPACE() correct, given that '\r', '\n' and particularly '\t'
> > > are handled differently in code below?
> > > (And no, I'm not intimately familiar with what it is doing, or why)
> > >   
> > 
> > So this should be rewritten as
> > 
> >   while( *s && ( s[0] == ' ' ) )
> >       ++s;
> 
> That is just one test too many, as it is effectively the same as
> 
>     while (*s == ' ') s++;
> 
> if *s == (char)0, *s == ' ' will be false
> If you also want to allow tabs,
> 
>     while (*s == ' ' || *s == '\t') s++;

Tabs are handled differently in the code below

    case '\n':
    case '\t':
	break;

so it didn't seem logical to include them here.

I applied the appended change.

Nicholas Clark

Change 34234 by nicholas@nicholas-saigo on 2008/08/28 13:11:44

	Fix #30660: Repeated spaces on shebang line stops option parsing
	From a patch and test sent by Renée Bäcker in
	<48B271A3.80808@smart-websolutions.de>

Affected files ...

... //depot/perl/perl.c#874 edit
... //depot/perl/t/run/switches.t#28 edit

Differences ...

==== //depot/perl/perl.c#874 (text) ====

@@ -3431,8 +3431,10 @@
 	return s;
     case '*':
     case ' ':
-	if (s[1] == '-')	/* Additional switches on #! line. */
-	    return s+2;
+        while( *s == ' ' )
+          ++s;
+	if (s[0] == '-')	/* Additional switches on #! line. */
+	    return s+1;
 	break;
     case '-':
     case 0:

==== //depot/perl/t/run/switches.t#28 (text) ====

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 BEGIN { require "./test.pl"; }
 
-plan(tests => 69);
+plan(tests => 70);
 
 use Config;
 
@@ -350,3 +350,19 @@
     stdin       => 'zomtek',
 );
 is( $r, "affe\n", '-E works outside of the block created by -n' );
+
+# RT #30660
+
+$filename = tempfile();
+SKIP: {
+    open my $f, ">$filename" or skip( "Can't write temp file $filename: $!" );
+    print $f <<'SWTEST';
+#!perl -w    -iok
+print "$^I\n";
+SWTEST
+    close $f or die "Could not close: $!";
+    $r = runperl(
+	progfile    => $filename,
+    );
+    like( $r, qr/ok/, 'Spaces on the #! line (#30660)' );
+}

• [perl #30660][PATCH] Repeated spaces on shebang line stops optionparsing by Renée Bäcker
• Re: [perl #30660][PATCH] Repeated spaces on shebang line stops option parsing by Nicholas Clark
• Re: [perl #30660][PATCH] Repeated spaces on shebang line stops optionparsing by Renée Bäcker
• Re: [perl #30660][PATCH] Repeated spaces on shebang line stopsoption parsing by H.Merijn Brand
• Re: [perl #30660][PATCH] Repeated spaces on shebang line stops option parsing by Nicholas Clark