When running exec('rsync') with PHP, getting Warning: Error while sending QUERY packet.

[Björn Tantau]

Am 2017-05-18 14:30, schrieb Andrey Repin:
>> I encountered a rather strange PHP bug I could only reproduce in 
>> cygwin
>> (32 Bit and 64 Bit).
>> If you have a working MySQL-Connection and then run exec('rsync')
> 
> exec()'ing anything from PHP, especially from PHP running on a 
> webserver is a
> very, very, very bad idea.

I know, I know. This is actually a CLI script. The production server 
where this is from is actually not allowed to exec anything.

>> the next Query produces the Warning:
>> PHP Warning:  Error while sending QUERY packet. PID=15036 in
>> /home/limora/test.php on line 5
> 
> Show the
> 
> phpinfo(~(2+16+32+64));
> 
> please...

See the attached phpinfo.txt.


And in reply to Brian Inglis (I had only subscribed to the list from my 
work account, but stupid Outlook gets caught in the spam filter):
It also happens with valid rsync calls and it doesn't happen with other 
programs that error out.


Regards,
Björn
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