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Re: Corrupted multibyte characters in command substitutions fixes may be
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Frank Heckenbach |
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Re: Corrupted multibyte characters in command substitutions fixes may be worse than problem. |
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Sun, 06 Feb 2022 18:26:50 +0100 |
> On 2022/01/02 17:43, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
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> > Why would you? Aren't you able to assess the severity of a bug
> > yourself? Silent data corruption is certainly one of the most severe
> > kind of bugs ...
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> That's debatable, BTW, as I was reminded of a similar
> passthrough of what one might call 'invalid input' w/o warning,
I think you misunderstood the bug. It was not about passing through
invalid input or fixing it. It was about bash corrupting valid input
(if an internal buffer boundary happened to fall within a UTF-8
sequence).