From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 15 8:40:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0381437B405 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 84880 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Jun 2001 15:40:32 -0000 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:40:32 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: Bruce Evans , Adrian Browne , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcsh.cat Message-ID: <20010615174032.B84233@mail.webmonster.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , "Andrey A. Chernov" , Bruce Evans , Adrian Browne , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010615020950.A7765@nagual.pp.ru> <20010615160248.A16012@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3lcZGd9BuhuYXNfi" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010615160248.A16012@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:02:50PM +0400 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.webmonster.de/ X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --3lcZGd9BuhuYXNfi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Andrey A. Chernov(ache@nagual.pp.ru)@2001.06.15 16:02:50 +0000: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 13:15:04 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: >=20 > > Related bugs: > > - symlink(2) is happy to create a symlink to the empty pathname although > > empty pathnames are invalid. >=20 > Maybe we need to fix symlink(2) then ? no, it will probably break some obfuscated code that stores state in symlinks (yes, this is done on some systems). i never encountered any unix that checked for existance of the symlink's target in symlink(2). ln perhaps should do it but override this specific behaviour then with -f. have fun, /k --=20 > The new glue is, unfortunately, ignored by recent versions of the BIND > cache; the detailed technical explanation for this is that the BIND > company is a bunch of idiots. --DJB discussing yet another BIND failing= =20 KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.n= et/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- catch@spam.de GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 B= F46 --3lcZGd9BuhuYXNfi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7KixwM0BPTilkv0YRAkjNAKCnvmBj1N30MMDlkPqRvjcEx2YQXwCeMDhe boDDIFgs+UgTJ1g4l6XVkHA= =yyI8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3lcZGd9BuhuYXNfi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message