Bug #11767 Updated: Bad escape sequence

ID: 11767 User Update by: veins@kheos.net Status: Open Bug Type: Program Execution Operating system: Unix PHP Version: 4.0.6 Description: Bad escape sequence Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2001-06-28 02:27:48] veins@kheos.net When safe_mode is set to On, it is impossible to pass a variable that contains a string with a space in it as an argument to any system() like function. The following script shows the problem: <? $somevar = "this is a test"; exec("echo.sh $somevar", $return); echo $return[0]; ?> echo.sh being a simple shell script that echoes back anything that we feed it. The following PHP script will display 'this' instead of 'this is a test'. I tried backslashing every chars of the variable by writing a simple function but spaces seems not to be correctly passed to the shell script. The same script executed when safe_mode is set to off works perfectly... Veins - Veins@Kheos.Net --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=11767