tags 470279 -moreinfo
severity 470279 serious
thanks
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 21:30, you wrote:
> Yes. I run lmbench-run from a CD an a system with no disk and get errors
> like:
>
> ./config-run: line 776: /usr/lib/lmbench/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/CONFIG.dfs:
> Read-only file system
>
> and indeed, in the file /usr/lib/scripts/config-run, there is
>
> C=${BINDIR}/bin/$OS/'${SCRIPTSDIR}/config'
> echo DISKS=\"$DISKS\" > $C
>
> which would then cause the above message.Thank you for the clarification. This is a violation of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard ch 4 which forbids writing there. I'm therefore raising the severity of this bug. Thijs
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