Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Holger Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What if the "application" is the shell itself? The shell cannot access
> 
> This is not really true..... the shell may access the files after it has been
> started using runat(1) or in case you did 'cd -@ file' on a xattrs enabled
> shell.

AFAIK there are no "xattrs enabled shells" and based on
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-May/016308.html
there will no special XATTR support in ksh93/bash in the forseeable
future unless these files become accessible in the normal filesystem
space.

> > those files and many tools dump core when used via runat(1). I'd say
> 
> The applicartions that dump core rhn run via runat(1) are broken and
> need to be fixed.

Uhm... it would be carefull with that statement. Shells are designed in
a way that each filesystem object has a proper parent which can be
resolved on demand. At least for shell scripts all hell breaks loose
once this rope is cut (which happens for runat(1)).

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Bye,
Roland

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