On 01.09.2011 18:02, Tony Houghton wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:08:49 +0400 > Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote: > >> The sequence of events is like, >> >> open a roxterm window as user, >> su to root with exec (exec su - or exec sudo bash) >> open new tab or window (Ctrl+Shift+N or Ctrl+Shift+T) >> >> it will complain that it can't read /proc/NN/cwd due to >> permission denied problem and close new window/tab after >> confirmation dialog. [] > Thanks for the report. I can confirm this is reproducible and I've fixed > it by checking for errors (eg EPERM) reading the link and not trying to > set the cwd in that case. You're probably right that previous versions > didn't have this bug because they spawned child processes in a different > way.
Yes, that's the most obvious thing to do - to ignore certain errors, or maybe even _all_ errors in this place - it is one of very rare cases where error handling actually may be omitted ;) And yes I'm certain that previous versions had no such issue - it always opened new window in "previous" directory in such situation. It actually wasn't always a good idea anyway: eg, I can run "su" from some "random" directory (it will go stright to root's $HOME), but roxterm will continue to open new tabs/windows in that "random" directory, even if it makes no sence anymore. I understand that roxterm just can't know if that's the case - with older way to track current dir changes. But that's all history now. > I've fixed it in git but I'd rather hold off release for a little while. > I've only just released a new version (experimental in Debian) and it > would be surprising if there aren't any other bugs because there were > major changes. Fair enough, I've seen your discussion about roxterm, roxterm-legacy, roxterm-glib3 et all on debian-devel. And I haven't asked for an urgent fix - I hope it was quite obvious, especially having in mind that I've choosen severity to be minor... ;) Thank you for your time and efforts! /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
