[Tcsh] globbing problem in 6.21

Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe at math.utah.edu
Tue May 3 15:33:02 UTC 2022


As of updates this morning (3-May-2022), Ubuntu 22.04 still has the
old 6.21 version of tcsh with the file globbing error.  The same is
true for Debian 12 (bookworm/sid), and for other distributions based
on Ubuntu, such as Lite 6.0 and Mint 20.3,

On recent Red Hat-based versions, I find these tcsh versions:

	CentOS 7		6.18.01
	CentOS 8		6.20.00
	CentOS 9		6.22.03
	Oracle 8		6.20.00
	AlmaLinux 8.5		6.20.00
	AlmaLinux 9.0		6.22.03
	EuroLinux 9.0		6.22.03
	Navy Linux 8.4		6.20.00
	Rocky Linux 8.5		6.20.09
	Springdale 8.5		6.20.00
	Virtuozzo Linux 8	6.20.00

On openSUSE, I find

	openSUSE 15.2		6.20.00
	openSUSE 15.4		6.20.00
	openSUSE Tumbleweed	6.24.00		[rolling release]
		
The new Slackware 15 release has 6.23.02.

The file globbing error in 6.21 could reasonably be viewed as a
security risk.

Is there a chance that leading tcsh team members could, perhaps
collectively, ask the Debian, Ubuntu, and other major Linux
distribution package teams to please update their tcsh to its latest
release?

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