Adduser devel - Jan 2008 - Bug#453419:

testing with adduser version 3.102

I ran into this bug as well. Your test script outputs:

found gzip: /bin/gzip
testwhich.pl: Could not find program named `bzip2'' in $PATH.

(i found it odd that it didn''t continue to the bzip3 test)

but when i modified your script to call it like it is in deluser i got this:

found gzip: /bin/gzip
found bzip2: 1
found bzip3: 1 (unlikely)

it looks like its related to if you call &which(''name'',1)
like in deluser and
wont happen if you call &which(''name'') like in your test
script.

it seems &which is returning 1 for not found if you tell it to be nonfatal
via
the second parameter.

Hi Michael

thanks for pointing in the right direction.

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 03:27:34AM -0000, Michael Geminden wrote:
> it looks like its related to if you call
&which(''name'',1) like in deluser and
> wont happen if you call &which(''name'') like in your
test script.
> 
> it seems &which is returning 1 for not found if you tell it to be
nonfatal via
> the second parameter.
&which returned garbage when the binary was not found and nonfatal was set
to 1. I fixed that in subversion, the bugfix will be contained in next
release. 
Thanks for your help.

J?rg


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