Dave Miner wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> Requesting review of the following small fix: >> >> [Bug 998] New: installer hangs at Fixing zero-length files... >> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=998 >> >> Webrev: >> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~moinakg/tm_python/ >> >> The fix calls unlink on all zero length files while ignoring >> errors from unlink. This ensures that symbolic links to zero >> length files are removed before the file is created. >> >> > > The fix is OK. I wonder, though, if we should be filtering zero-length > files out of the list of links created during the construction process. > Other than the gimlet files, I get the following list: > > ./etc/dfs/sharetab > ./etc/dumpdates > ./etc/mail/local-host-names > ./etc/mnttab > ./etc/security/dev/audio > ./etc/security/dev/fd0 > ./etc/security/dev/sr0 > ./etc/security/dev/st0 > ./etc/security/dev/st1 > ./var/adm/aculog > ./var/adm/spellhist > ./var/adm/utmpx > ./var/adm/wtmpx > ./var/log/authlog > ./var/log/postrun.log > ./var/log/syslog > ./var/saf/zsmon/log > Some of these are already filtered out via the var_microroot_files. So, we don't create the links.
sarah **** > These all seem like things that probably ought to be writable on the CD. > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > >
