On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:37:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm sorry for the previous patch, so here is at least one item that really > bugs me that isn't obfuscation. In short, I don't see any reason to fork > some process to simply "touch" a file (is a filesystem writable) when > built-in shell i/o does this: > > --- /etc/rc.d/tmp.orig Mon Aug 1 23:20:24 2005 > +++ /etc/rc.d/tmp Mon Aug 1 23:22:07 2005 > @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ > [Nn][Oo]) > ;; > *) > - if (/bin/mkdir -p /tmp/.diskless 2> /dev/null); then > - rmdir /tmp/.diskless > + if ( > /tmp/.diskless 2> /dev/null); then > + rm /tmp/.diskless > else > if [ -h /tmp ]; then > echo "*** /tmp is a symlink to a non-writable area!" >
Try this as a non-root user, reboot the system and see what happens: $ ln -s /bin/rm /tmp/.diskless _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
