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author | Justine Tunney <jtunney@gmail.com> | 2021-01-25 21:34:50 -0800 |
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committer | Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com> | 2021-02-16 09:16:20 +0000 |
commit | 326d9c203b3980c0f841bc62b06e37134c6e51ea (patch) | |
tree | 07854fc13213a27825758d55ac2cfc273ef4f4b5 /Src/builtin.c | |
parent | 83cc7c6bf08762c3fdeb76a44e4086734ff1db13 (diff) | |
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Allow more scripts without #!
This change modifies the zsh binary safety check surrounding execve() so
it can run shell scripts having concatenated binary content. We're using
the same safety check as FreeBSD /bin/sh [1]. POSIX was recently revised
to require this behavior:
"The input file may be of any type, but the initial portion of the
file intended to be parsed according to the shell grammar (XREF to
XSH 2.10.2 Shell Grammar Rules) shall consist of characters and
shall not contain the NUL character. The shell shall not enforce
any line length limits."
"Earlier versions of this standard required that input files to the
shell be text files except that line lengths were unlimited.
However, that was overly restrictive in relation to the fact that
shells can parse a script without a trailing newline, and in
relation to a common practice of concatenating a shell script
ending with an 'exit' or 'exec $command' with a binary data payload
to form a single-file self-extracting archive." [2] [3]
One example use case of such scripts, is the Cosmopolitan C Library [4]
which configuse the GNU Linker to output a polyglot shell+binary format
that runs on Linux / Mac / Windows / FreeBSD / OpenBSD.
[1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/9a1cd363318b7e9e70ef6af27d1675b371c16b1a
[2] http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1250
[3] http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1226#c4394
[4] https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/index.html
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