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powerpc-utils package

  1. Bug #1692420
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 1692420

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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote : Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-12-21 00:16 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #51)
> I think the upstream patch for lsdevinfo is incomplete as there is another
> call to cat. From the code:
>
> 254 # get the physical location
> 255 physloc=$($CAT $dev/ibm,loc-code)
> 256 type="$($OD -t x2 $dev/vendor-id $dev/device-id |
> 257 $CUT -f3,5 -d ' ' -s --output-delimiter='')"
>
> Do the other commands that were problematic (ls-vscsi, ls-veth, and
> ofpathname) work?

Issue is observed even with other commands.

:~# ls-vscsi
/usr/sbin/ls-vscsi: line 72: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input
host0 U8286.42A.1069B3T-V8-C17-T1
~# ls-veth
/usr/sbin/ls-veth: line 74: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input
ibmveth2 U8286.42A.1069B3T-V8-C2-T1
:~# ofpathname /dev/sda
/usr/sbin/ofpathname: line 812: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input
/usr/sbin/ofpathname: line 865: cd: too many arguments
/vdevice/v-scsi@30000011/disk@8100000000000000