Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:37:07 GMT From: edwin@FreeBSD.org To: Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com, edwin@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/36757: which(1) ought to append @ if result is symlink Message-ID: <200808100837.m7A8b7QS064734@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: which(1) ought to append @ if result is symlink State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: edwin State-Changed-When: Sun Aug 10 08:32:53 UTC 2008 State-Changed-Why: This is a very dangerous addition to the output. Normally which(1) is used to determine if there is a program file with that name in the users $PATH, to know if the program is there and know the full path. By adding this character, suddenly the program file returned doesn't exist anymore despite that the program file does exist. I'm sorry but this shouldn't be done. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=36757
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