Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 17:55:12 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, 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: <201703020155.v221tCxY060080@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <CAGHfRMCCo9H_xDxK4VbAgcZp_Mmw1nm7AGdhxRNjaE0cyq1iNA@mail.gmail.com>
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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). Yes, this is just something that leaked over into this thread. Note that this is not just something I want to do, this is technically a bug in FreeBSD and a regresion that occured. And yes in general if the binaries live in the same directoy hard rather than soft links should be used, so another regresion. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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