Bug 107416

Summary: xdg-mime can't handle desktop file with spaces in their name
Product: Portland Reporter: Jean <jean-18-09>
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: medium CC: jean-18-09
Version: 1.1.0 rc3   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Jean 2018-07-29 09:33:38 UTC
If a directory is named "bar foo baz" in an "applications" directory and there exist
a "foo" directory in the current working directory and the directory "foo" has
a filename or subdirectory called "a foo b", a call to `xdg-mime query default <mimetype>` for a non-existent mimetype would freeze. The freezing would make some other programs that rely on xdg-mime freeze as well.

When xdg-mime enter the function `search_desktop_file`, it searches each subdirectory with `for f in $dir/*/; do`, which expands to `for f in $dir/bar foo baz/; do`, it will then search recursively "foo" and will go into a loop.

Using the command `find` might solve this issue.
Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-16 13:40:21 UTC
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