On 8/18/2012 5:50 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
On 2012-08-17, at 11:00 PM, "Gregory M. Turner" <g...@malth.us> wrote:
greg@fedora64vmw /tmp $ mkdir foo
greg@fedora64vmw /tmp $ ROOT=foo portageq envvar ROOT
/tmp/foo/
Does /anybody/ use this feature?
Sorry for the HTML response... am on the road.
I don't use the feature but I would fully expect said behavior. ie, going with
the example above I would expect that I'd need the / in front for the path to
not be relative.
A user and maintainer of this (vapier) has emerged. I pooh-poohed the
relative-ROOT idea when I discovered it a few days ago, but I've
flip-flopped. I was concerned it would be exploitable by Bad
People(tm), but I think it's no more exploitable than absolute-only
ROOT, so long as its implemented correctly.
So far, nobody's turned up to advocate against the status quo (except
me, but I'm fine with it now), so I think the matter can be considered
resolved.
-gmt
