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 >>> ./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.
I just checked these in David Comay's Second ISO image. These are regular files in the miniroot and not symlinks. However these are present under /mnt/misc as well. Regards, Moinak. > > 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 >>> >>> >
