Hi, `_hurd_change_directory_port_from_name' in `libc/hurd/hurdchdir.c' tests if the given name ends with `/.'. But with the current code if "." is given and this string starts exactly at page boundary and the previous page is not vm_allocated then SIGSEGV will be raised.
Regards -- Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "\"Programmer\""
2002-03-25 Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * hurdchdir.c (_hurd_change_directory_port_from_name): Don't test if NAME ends with "/." if strlen(NAME) < 2.
--- hurdchdir.c.orig Sun Apr 1 08:04:05 2001 +++ hurdchdir.c Mon Mar 25 15:46:53 2002 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ _hurd_change_directory_port_from_name (s /* Append trailing "/." to directory name to force ENOTDIR if it's not a directory and EACCES if we don't have search permission. */ len = strlen (name); - if (name[len - 2] == '/' && name[len - 1] == '.') + if (len >= 2 && name[len - 2] == '/' && name[len - 1] == '.') lookup = name; else {