Jack Schwartz wrote:
> Hi Jean.
>
> It isn't clear to me from the bug report whether by "$DIST_IO_SORT is 
> empty" means the environment variable is not set, or whether the file 
> it points to is empty.  It is clear that you interpreted this to be 
> the latter, but I don't think that's what was intended.  But the 
> following leads me to believe he was referring to an unset environment 
> variable.
>
> With $junk undefined,
> sh returns 1 from  [ -f $junk ]
> bash returns 0
>
> With junk  defined and pointing to an empty file,
> both sh and bash return 0 when I do [ -f $junk ]
>
> Finally, the output of the mkisofs command in the bug report makes me 
> wonder if there is something missing from the commandline.  It says:
>    mkisofs: No such file or directory. Can't open sort file list -quiet
> That makes me think the commandline args are shifted due to a missing 
> arg, which could come from an undefined environment variable.
>
> So before saying it looks OK, I'd like to check with the bugfiler what 
> he meant.  Looks to me like he was referring to an undefined 
> environment variable, not to an environment variable which points to 
> an empty file.
Well whether he meant that or not, it should check for both. Change 
coming....

Jean
>
>    Thanks,
>    Jack
>
> Jean McCormack wrote:
>> Can Jack look at this, please?
>> It's for bug 774: Distro constructor fails when DIST_ISO_SORT is empty
>>
>> Webrev: http://cr.opensolaris.org/~jeanm/distro_constructor/
>>
>> Bug: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=774
>>
>> Jean
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