Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 14:32:27 -0800 From: Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r314464 - head/usr.sbin/yppush Message-ID: <CAGHfRMCCo9H_xDxK4VbAgcZp_Mmw1nm7AGdhxRNjaE0cyq1iNA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170301165732.GA1093@FreeBSD.org> References: <20170301163050.GA81295@FreeBSD.org> <201703011643.v21GhtaI057213@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <20170301165732.GA1093@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 08:43:55AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> I believe we have some other full path things that have crept >> forward into the production release, but that may be in ports >> only. Nope bad full paths links I found in just a few seconds: >> >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 Nov 30 02:26 chfn -> /usr/bin/chpass >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 Nov 30 02:26 chsh -> /usr/bin/chpass >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Nov 30 02:27 cpio -> bsdcpio >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Nov 30 02:27 mailq -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Nov 30 02:27 newaliases -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Nov 30 02:25 pgrep -> /bin/pgrep >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Nov 30 02:25 pkill -> /bin/pkill >> [...] > > Jeez, this is all so bogus! Imagine accessing those remotely via NFS mount > and watch things break hell in all weird ways. :-( This is completely orthogonal to my changes (and has been in place for a number of years). If you'd like to use relative symlinks for programs, then let's definitely do it as part of another change (personally, I think that some of these items could and should be replaced with hardlinks). Thanks, -Ngie
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