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Date:      Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:19:02 +0100
From:      Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@freebsd.org>
To:        rgrimes@freebsd.org
Cc:        Alex Richardson <arichardson@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r364166 - head/usr.sbin/crunch/crunchgen
Message-ID:  <32E49245-77B0-4E61-A483-9F7B34D939B7@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <202008121610.07CGAcm0038791@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <202008121610.07CGAcm0038791@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On 12 Aug 2020, at 17:10, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> =
wrote:
>=20
> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
>> Author: arichardson
>> Date: Wed Aug 12 15:49:06 2020
>> New Revision: 364166
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/364166
>>=20
>> Log:
>>  Fix crunchgen usage of mkstemp()
>>=20
>>  On Glibc systems mkstemp can only be used once with the same =
template
>>  string since it will be modified in-place and no longer contain any =
'X' chars.
>>  It is fine to reuse the same file here but we need to be explicit =
and use
>>  open() instead of mkstemp() on the second use.
>>=20
>>  While touching this file also avoid a hardcoded /bin/pwd since that =
may not
>>  work when building on non-FreeBSD systems.
>=20
> This may cause some grief, as now pwd may use a shell builtin
> and often shell builtin's return a cwd that is not a true
> full path, ie it may contain symlink compontents in the
> path.
>=20
> /bin/sh:
>=20
> # cd /tmp/b
> # /bin/pwd
> /tmp/a
> # pwd
> /tmp/b
> # ls -lag /tmp/?
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1 Aug 12 16:06 /tmp/b -> a
>=20
> /tmp/a:
> total 17
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    2 Aug 12 16:06 .
> drwxrwxrwt  18 root  wheel  248 Aug 12 16:06 ..

There's the question of whether that really matters; both values are in
some sense correct. But if you want to restore the old behaviour, I
believe `env pwd` is the portable way to do so?

Jess




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