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 >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> >>
