Re: empty HOME variable crashes client

Sinisa Milivojevic <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andrej writes:
> Good morning, mysqlers!
> 
> We found that running any mysql client with set but empty HOME variable 
> generates coredump. To reproduce error execute
> 	env -i HOME= mysqladmin
> 	env -i HOME= mysql
> 
> At the same time following works
> 	env -i mysqladmin
> 	env -i mysql
> 
> Problem found for mysql-4.0.15 on linux-ia64 and hpux-11.11 platforms.
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Andrej
> 

This would crash most of UNIX programs on your system anyway.

But yes, we should fix it too.

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