Re: terminal emulators' processing of escape sequences

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg () fifthhorseman net>]

On Wed 2017-05-17 12:51:57 +0200, Robert Święcki wrote:
> Please consider the following example:
>
> $ tail -n1 /etc/hosts | xxd
> 00000000: 3132 372e 302e 302e 3309 1b47 513b 205a  127.0.0.3..GQ; Z
> 00000010: 5a5a 0a                                  ZZ.
> $ ping ZZZ
> PING ; (127.0.0.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
> ^[G0
> 64 bytes from ; (127.0.0.3): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.039 ms
> ^[G0
> 64 bytes from ; (127.0.0.3): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.032 ms
> ^[G0
> ^C
> --- ; ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1014ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.032/0.035/0.039/0.006 ms
> ^[G0
> $ 0
> bash: 0: command not found

what version of ping are you using?  I was unable to replicate this with
either the debian iputils-ping package version 3:20161105-1, or with
debian inetutils-ping package version 2:1.9.4-2+b1.  neither of them seem to
do a getnameinfo() at all if it is initially supplied with an IP
address.

That said, with the same last line of /etc/hosts, getent is willing
to pass along the garbage chars:

0 test@host:~$ getent hosts 127.0.0.3
127.0.0.3       ; ZZZ
^[G0
0 test@host:~$ 0
bash: 0: command not found
127 test@host:~$ 

    --dkg

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