Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 22:17:19 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/14300: MAKEDEV requires /usr to be mounted (for chown(1)) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910132210190.30102-100000@alphplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <13546.939816148@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> This change was made "necessary" by etc.i386/MAKEDEV rev 1.148, by jkh.
> It claims to have "strengthened" the mknod() function, although it seems
> mostly to have made MAKEDEV dependant on a mounted /usr partition.
>
> Jordan, do you remember what the change actually solved?
lint: chown returns a value which is always ignored
Now the value returned by chown is only sometimes ignored. This is good
enough for handling the error of not having chown in $PATH although not good
enough for handling errors from chmod itself, since there are many scattered
chowns with no error handling.
Bruce
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