On Tue, 24 Sep 2024, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> Two, say people are expected to create the directories first. >> But in that case, copy_exec also must not create any missing >> directories any more *at all*, > >No, it was documented to do that for the case where no target argument >was given, and changing that would likely cause widespread breakage.
Right, totally. I was thinking of the two-argument case only. >> and additionally, if the target >> ends in a slash in the argv (i.e. before realpathisation), it >> still must be interpreted as the name of a directory (or symlink >> to a directory), so that copying to '/usr/libexec/' will either >> work (if pre-created) or fail (if not pre-created). > >I agree that we mustn't create the target filename as a regular file if >it originally ended with a slash. Thanks. >Now that I've tested, I see that this has worked since at least squeeze >(that's the oldest image I have available). So I'm now leaning towards >restoring and documenting it. OK, thanks. bye, //mirabilos -- 16:47⎜«mika:#grml» .oO(mira ist einfach gut....) 23:22⎜«mikap:#grml» mirabilos: und dein bootloader ist geil :) 23:29⎜«mikap:#grml» und ich finds saugeil dass ich ein bsd zum booten mit grml hab, das muss ich dann gleich mal auf usb-stick installieren -- Michael Prokop über MirOS bsd4grml
