On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:09:00PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2002 15:15, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:07:36PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > What is the relevance of `closed source apps' here?

> > That if it were not a closed-source app, I would have fixed it to use a
> > saner name for its configuration file. :)

> You could always use a LD_PRELOAD hack to redirect such accesses to a 
> different file name.  It's not difficult to do.

Sure, but I'm not filing a bug against the app in question, I'm filing
a bug against dpkg for not handling extraneous special characters. :)  I
already have a workaround in place for the app...

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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