Bug#314552: zaptel: bashism in postinst

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com
Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:57:13 +0300


On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:21:20AM +1000, Angus Lees wrote:
> Package: zaptel
> Version: 1:1.0.7-4.1
> Severity: important
> 
> zaptel.postinst contains this piece of code:
> 
>                 N=1; 
>                 while (( $N < 250 )) ; do 
>                         rm -f /dev/zap/$N; 
>                         mknod /dev/zap/$N c 196 $N; 
>                         N=`expr $N + 1` 
>                 done

for N in `seq 250`; do
      rm -f /dev/zap/$N; 
      mknod /dev/zap/$N c 196 $N; 
done

But then again, running mknod in a postinst script is a different policy
violation, isn't it?

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