On 30 August 2013 04:53, Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 29 August 2013 19:45, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> the AT&T Software Technology ast alpha 2013-08-29 source release
>> has been posted to the download site
>>         http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/alpha/
>> the package names and md5 checksums are
>>             INIT  132e0403af573fa1cb1e202267fedeb8
>>         ast-open  334615fb3a652575106194c281d27b5c
>>          ast-ksh  ebcc56d9ab673aaafbb163d6eee1a93c
>> the md5 sums should match the ones listed on the download page
>>
>> this is still a work in progress, but we are getting closer to a beta
>
> No, you don't. This release if OFFICIALLY broken beyond usability and USELESS.
> You really had to try and tinker with cd -@ again, did you? I'm really
> angry. cd .. no longer works within NFSv4 xattr directories, e.g.
> echo "" >x ; cd -@ x ; touch xattr ; cd .. ; rm x now fails with a cd:
> /home/ced/prod4/test19/x//@//..: [Not a directory]

Another regression:
cd -@ is now enabled on all platforms regardless whether they support
O_XATTR or not. Which is bad since we use [[ "$(cd --help 2>&1)" ==
*"-@"* ]] to test whether the platform has this feature or not.

> Thank you :(
>
> Ced
> --
> Cedric Blancher <[email protected]>
> Institute Pasteur

Ced
-- 
Cedric Blancher <[email protected]>
Institute Pasteur
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