Johan Danielsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem is that ac_dots is set to something like ../../../../, now
> if you configure in, say, /afs/pdc.kth.se/foo/bar/baz, ac_dots will
> point to (in some sense) /afs, and because of broken code in sh's expand
> this will trigger a massive stat of everything in /afs, which is wrong
> in general, and really brokwn on a networked filesystem.
> The obvious workaround is to do `echo "$ac_dots" | sed ...` instead.
> Don't know if there are more places this can happen, or if it affects
> other shells (I suspect that csh works similarly). Now, how do you file
> a bug-report to Compaq?
If you report it to Transarc, tell them it causes problems by stating
mount points for network file systems and don't mention AFS (let them
think NFS). Otherwise, they'll probably just blame AFS and send you to
Transarc. :/
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
