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title="NEW - Endless recursion in xdg-open due to incorrect handling of spaces in directory names"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109205">109205</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Endless recursion in xdg-open due to incorrect handling of spaces in directory names
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<th>Product</th>
<td>Portland
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>xdg-utils
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>portland-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>sophie.hirn@wyvernscale.com
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<pre>xdg-open can be brought to recurse endlessly into a crash with the following
setup:
1. Inside the search path for .desktop files, place a directory with name
(e.g.) `Grinding Gear Games`
2. Create a directory named `Games` in your home directory.
3. Create a subdirectory named `Grinding Gear Games` somewhere inside the
`~/Games` directory.
Now, running e.g. `xdg-open <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org">https://en.wikipedia.org</a>` from your home directory
will result in an endless recursion and inevitable crash.
I've already found the offending line, it's `scripts/xdg-open.in:330`, which
reads `for d in $dir/*/; do`.
The spaces in the directory name mentioned above lead the search into `~/Games`
due to improper space handling, and the directory `~/Games/<...>/Grinding Gear
Games` makes the search go back to `~/Games` again.
However, I haven't found a POSIX-compliant way of fixing the problem without
restructuring the entire function yet, all my attempts relied either on
bash-specific behaviour or GNU extensions to `find`.</pre>
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