> The Cydia developer Jay Freeman, reported this same problem to me on > IRC (with an additional affected project [G]). It seems it does not > affect Android M, only Android N so it would seem to be a regression?
Not sure, I've seen bits of information that seem to suggest that this change comes from Google's ext4 patch for file-based encryption. Whether that is true, I don't know. > The point of the code was to reduce the complexity, which is > something > that can be assumed from POSIX, and to detect bogus filesystem code, > or possible race conditions while dealing with symlinks that might > change for whatever reason under dpkg feet. I guess I went for the > most strict implementation mostly as matter of defensive programming. I did not see this relationship being mentioned in POSIX, only a greater or equal one. Therefore I agree that a less strict implementation may be better. Thanks. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
