It has been reported that echo test >&$EMPTY_VARIABLE causes dash to segfault. This is a symptom of the bigger problem that dash tries to perform pathname expansion as well as field splitting on the word after >& and <&. This is wrong and this patch fixes it to use the same expansions as done on a normal redirection. Reported-by: Andrej Shadura <andrew.shadura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/src/eval.c b/src/eval.c index 6185db4..328fde3 100644 --- a/src/eval.c +++ b/src/eval.c @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ expredir(union node *n) case NFROMFD: case NTOFD: if (redir->ndup.vname) { - expandarg(redir->ndup.vname, &fn, EXP_FULL | EXP_TILDE); + expandarg(redir->ndup.vname, &fn, EXP_TILDE | EXP_REDIR); fixredir(redir, fn.list->text, 1); } break; -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt