Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 07:27:11 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "broken" symbolic links in /usr/lib Message-ID: <55B8723F.8090409@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201507290448.t6T4moDa019590@dyslexicfish.net> References: <20150728200034.GO1277@albert.catwhisker.org> <20150728184516.GN1277@albert.catwhisker.org> <E1ZK9QG-000CAR-KW@clue.co.za> <E1ZKAuN-000CK7-MG@clue.co.za> <E1ZKBJi-0000JZ-FS@clue.co.za> <20150728232054.GG41419@in-addr.com> <201507290448.t6T4moDa019590@dyslexicfish.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 29/07/2015 05:48, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote: > Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> As best that I can recall, the permissions of the directory underneath >> the mount point has been causing problems like this for as long as I've been >> using FreeBSD, which is over 20 years at this point. It's certainly >> bit me in the distant past. > > I concur. I always make mount point directories 0111,noschg,nodump - it makes > them stand out when not mounted, and also stops accidental directory deletion > potentially stopping a reboot from working. > > But yeah, for 20+ years. I've also experienced problems if a mount-point > directory doesn't have +x access. A long time ago -- before the millenium -- NeXT machines did away with the need for a mount-point directory to exist. So, if you wanted to mount /foo/bar, only the /foo directory needed to exist prior to the mount. Since NeXT was subsumed by Apple, and NeXTStep reborn as MacOSX, the same is presumably true today all Macs. (Although I haven't tested this personally.) I do wonder why the rest of the world didn't do likewise. It would make this sort of problem a non-event. Cheers, Matthew [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.20 (Darwin) iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJVuHJGXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ2NTNBNjhCOTEzQTRFNkNGM0UxRTEzMjZC QjIzQUY1MThFMUE0MDEzAAoJELsjr1GOGkATZCIP/A70oYjSmowH3qPzzkiPFpMn 2LKxCF1sQgP6NPKln3SO2ZJlaScjYgniq1IYxOG/rO13Ran0Rei1f2ebdD7ya2fx +MO8ofZrTTnplSFXv2ICiR54wG5n93X7nJKbhmKwCEdxjtvWec7F9yYU5T/dpB2P dbDvGfaNrZy636nOGjvOMMMBMS4REZDKkLVp/1v++12qY596pYhA86nOFZKm5lIU 97UGTFJ+avGN2F04LjfA+odBtuhrS3dszEaOLSIIOMZ+Z5VC/7E0fCa2ybnFYRd5 vYK+cpGRgODojfV5Hih+qEd51C4WdgOgd1laxj6tEIWMKOvU5NM2GeMiNbQPrGzl LcDGHL0LpP99zzYJICdM8k881wy6hALr6SGCGSw7sx8nG+WBrpTKmPhePltr0a22 YB89VsLm3rxz9D1j+Gip4+G3JLUcEeIOjXtyPMY/+AAYHJY45o0sBVMeQ9gY6LTs 9/P/FmGTEwU4eJQor2sLcwwQ4phOdWjfeU0H6Cl4r5G/tQqqE+wi3pPs0ENT7Lgz LRcQ8mBtGmhHu9dX61kR4fSySTQH1fPSPNc16dVX4du6unAZQhOZilsLKMHrP9en vGmWOJooAnEtkhWXs4dkiJrsY1w9WeX/t5qTqS6JYUFMpdkj6PSUGEbJawVZictl SPhfI+4xG3/OwsDQjdCz =QF2D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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