Dave Miner wrote: > 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 >>> This is in the var_microroot_files >>> ./var/log/syslog >>> This one as well. >>> ./var/saf/zsmon/log >>> >>> This one. >> 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. > > True... Because these are in the root archive as near as I can tell from the use of this var_microroot_files. Channing, is something going on here?
thanks, sarah **** > 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 >>> >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > >
