Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Fbsd8 <fb...@a1poweruser.com> writes:
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
This fixes the problem that was bothering you, but the interactions of
different features are complicated, and many of them are documented in
fairly loose language.
Is that the diplomatic way of saying the manpage for mtree sucks, and
leaves a great deal to be desired?
Not really; I was looking at the code at the time I wrote that. To be
fair, I'm not sure what I would *expect* for some of the possible
interactions.
When it comes to testing your patch sure I would like to. But here
again I have a problem. For security reasons I can not use source code
to install or update any operating system. I have no sources on my
system to compile from. I use the fresh install method from a
downloaded disc1.iso burned to cdrom.
I was thinking you could extend the shell scripts using your existing
mtree executable.
Well I have already played with all the mtree(8) options you are
interested in -u, -U, -q, -d, and different combinations of them
including the specification keywords of "nochange", and "ignore", and in
all cases the return code is always zero even when the test case should
result in a return code of 1 or 2. I had no requirements to use the
"optional" keyword, but after the 15+ combinations I ran I see no reason
to expect the "optional", keyword to change the results I got.
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