From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 5 11:01:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05089 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 11:01:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05008 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 11:01:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19999; Tue, 5 May 1998 11:01:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Snob Art Genre cc: "Ron G. Minnich" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: an interesting problem with pkg_add In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 May 1998 12:52:52 EDT." Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 11:01:14 -0700 Message-ID: <19995.894391274@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I had this happen to me back in the days of 2.1.5, only it was just my > home directory that got eaten. > > JKH assured me that the bug was fixed in 2.1.6. :-( There were two bugs in the cleanup code. One removed everything in the current directory on ^C if you whapped it at just the right time and I fixed it right after 2.1.5 came out. The other bug removed everything the current directory on ^C if you whapped it at just the right time and I fixed it right after 2.2.5 came out. :-) [yes, exact same symptoms, different bugs]. I know these bugs were extremely pathological and if I hadn't already done my best to chase down and fix them, I'd feel a lot worse than I do right now about it. Having fixed it (knock on wood), all I can say at this stage is "man, I'm sorry Ron! I hope you had backups and I only wish you'd hit ^C *after* the package tools had been upgraded to 2.2-stable!" :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message