On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Garrett Cooper <yaneg...@gmail.com> wrote: > The following reply was made to PR bin/139606; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Garrett Cooper <yaneg...@gmail.com> > To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org, p...@critter.freebsd.dk > Cc: > Subject: Re: bin/139606: [patch] pkg_add(1) coredumps silently on atlantis > symlink > Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:44:06 -0700 > > Hi PHK, > The goals of this change are good and while this does do a better > job than the other proposed change (bin/136419), there's one solitary > problem: fexists is used all over the pkg_install code and minus the > occasional corner case it's been relatively glitch free. Changing this > code to use stat(2) instead of lstat(2) may have some unexpected > consequences -- it would probably just be a wiser idea to 1) leave the > code alone with the issue documented or 2) implement stat(2) in that > section of code, because we know it's a problem section of code that > needs to be resolved. Not doing this will result in potential > regressive churn if it hasn't been adequately tested with a fine tooth > comb.
1. PHK didn't post the reply; Efstratios did (sorry PKH ><). 2. There wasn't actually a solution suggested in the other PR. Thanks, -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
