On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 16:16, denis bergeron wrote: > Just to add a bit of information on the crash of OpenOffice with the > local fr_CA. > > I am in the progress of upgrading from rc3 to release and, like I do > each time, I zip the home folder. > > And I find this strange folder hiearchie when I zip the files : > > adding: > home/denis/.openoffice/user/work/.openoffice/user/work/.openoffice/use > r/work/.openoffice/user/work/.openoffice/user/work/.openoffice/user/work/.openof > fice/user/work/flash_linux/libflashplayer.so
Many moons before Linux, I saw a similar type of deep repetitive directory structure created by a tar-like program because of a bug in the curdir() library routine on a SVR2 system. The failure was related to a problem reading /etc/mnttab during the search upward for the root directory from a relative directory starting point. I've now exhausted my memory recollection ability and need to rest before reminiscing further... Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
