Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> 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.
> 

Please file a bug about that, we shouldn't have multiple copies there 
even if they take up zero space...

Dave

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