Sarah Jelinek wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> 

There's something odd there, then, because the linking process shouldn't 
create those links if they exist in the root archive.

Dave
> sarah
> ****
> 
> 
>> These all seem like things that probably ought to be writable on the CD.
>>
>> Dave
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