Hello Egmont, And of course you're right! :) The strange thing is that your comment doesn't show in the comments for bug # 3836 ?!.
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > > Follow-up Comment #5, bug #3836 (project mc): > > Some time ago dpkg had a bug: when it removed a package that contained a > symlink to /dev/null, it chmod'ed /dev/null to 000. The problem was that it > did a chmod() instead of lchmod(), or stat() instead of lstat() or something > like that on the file to be removed. > > Obviously if mc changed /dev/null to 600 for everyone, we would all know > about it and it would be already fixed. On the other hand I have no reason to > doubt the reporter. > > So I guess that the bug might be that mc (or maybe its wrapper script) > chmod's something to 600, and this something (a temp file maybe) happens to > be a symlink to /dev/null on the reporter's system due to some special setup > or env var or special wrapper script or something like that... > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Reply to this item at: > > <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?3836> > > _______________________________________________ > Message sent via/by Savannah > http://savannah.gnu.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Mc-devel mailing list > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel > _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
