From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 6 20:58:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656DD106564A for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 20:58:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B548FC1D for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 20:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iahk25 with SMTP id k25so10270854iah.13 for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:58:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=SjN8FAEX/MrqZX9rQrCQ0YJAg+d4lVv3ftpxz7okoic=; b=nRQHpezW8y0VRdEXjnJSL2xlCgTb6DSmOmPaGgFn4eWcmVEaSib0MzG17UDaN4M5lI DSGyCuZjhr94xVYcQp+U3k5WI36p2BiACqImfgipmnRz9T4UZUcnwy0hXfZel6O8SKiO ml5W7erjoAkirocJNFjQ5Slv2qo2aB/L8fTMixDKajEWOEao4hphoJf7H9Zi65vGMjlq Y4JHulT0ClX+hMNRl2Y/uwL84oAwmFjdcQVvUhBo5Ha8u3f/akIFotCxEbSW3EQYBzRP Id+Mt5xnWJ98TfUbIdlOsYBNsoFiuzGGbUtPC6wVRw2yVY7XkeaOcQ2dB2CDmeK1aOXK gxiA== Received: by 10.50.181.228 with SMTP id dz4mr10189503igc.9.1331067527853; Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:58:47 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: utisoft@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.53.67 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 12:58:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F5675D9.5050509@gmail.com> References: <4F5675D9.5050509@gmail.com> From: Chris Rees Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 20:58:17 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: W5LVDWdWLDy2bjjkhKhkc2V3Uog Message-ID: To: deeptech71@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "rm -rf /" fanclub X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:58:48 -0000 On 6 March 2012 20:38, wrote: > Peter Maloney wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:41 PM, deeptech71 at gmail.com >> wrote: >> > X11R6 should be a symlink to local or ./local. >> >> Did you test this, by removing the link and creating it >> relative to see if there are any stupid side effects? > > No apparent side effects. And I can't even see why there would be any. In > both cases (X11R6 points to "/usr/local" vs X11R6 points to "local") > - "/usr/X11R6" resolves to the symlink, although > =A0 =A0different symlink texts can be extracted; > - "/usr/X11R6/" resolves to the "local" directory in "/usr"; > - "/usr/X11R6/file123" resolves to "/usr/local/file123". > > TODO: Test whether purely removing X11R6 has any side effects. Not hugely helpful, but I've discovered a few subtle bugs that miraculously disappear when X11R6 symlink was removed. I still miss it though, in a weird way... Chris