Description Josef 2009-11-03 09:51:18 EST

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009102815 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.15
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I've downloaded the RCP version of the latest Eclipse (Galileo SR1) for Linux and extracted it to /tmp/eclipse. Runs without problems.

Afterwards I've moved the folder to /tmp/e#clipse just for the heck of it. Eclipse now refuses to start with the following message:

JVM terminated. Exit code=13
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
-Djava.class.path=/tmp/e#clipse/plugins
...

Within this message the path is still correct. However, using strace(1) I found out that it tries to stat/open files in the directory with the hash sign removed. The first such occurrence is when it looks for the file .eclipseproduct.

stat64("/tmp/eclipse/.eclipseproduct", 0xbfdde978) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Interestingly, Eclipse seems to work well when the path is modified in other ways such as writing it in cyrillic letters (/tmp/еклипсе), so it doesn't seem to be related to the bug described at http://bugs.debian.org/552334. I wonder what sort of sanitising method might be erroneously called on the path, e.g. in the context of safe shell quoting, to let the removal of the hash sign happen.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Eclipse from directory without hash sign
2. Run Eclipse from directory with hash sign
3. Profit!