Package: debianutils
Version: 4.5.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
After a bit tweaking of my .mkshrc, KSH_VERSION gets exported.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I called `/bin/which ls`
* What was the outcome of this action?
It hanged
* What outcome did you expect instead?
output '/bin/ls' or like this
It is clear why it happens: /bin/which tests for KSH_VERSION to choose
between 'printf' and 'print'. Unfortunately, if it chooses incorrectly,
'/usr/bin/print' is provided by `mime-support'. In most unfortunate
case, I get fork bomb.
Probably, /bin/which should use /usr/bin/printf unconditionally.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages debianutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.9
debianutils recommends no packages.
debianutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
