On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 08:43:55AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> I believe we have some other full path things that have crept >> forward into the production release, but that may be in ports >> only. Nope bad full paths links I found in just a few seconds: >> >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 Nov 30 02:26 chfn -> /usr/bin/chpass >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 Nov 30 02:26 chsh -> /usr/bin/chpass >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Nov 30 02:27 cpio -> bsdcpio >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Nov 30 02:27 mailq -> >> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Nov 30 02:27 newaliases -> >> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Nov 30 02:25 pgrep -> /bin/pgrep >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Nov 30 02:25 pkill -> /bin/pkill >> [...] > > Jeez, this is all so bogus! Imagine accessing those remotely via NFS mount > and watch things break hell in all weird ways. :-(
This is completely orthogonal to my changes (and has been in place for a number of years). If you'd like to use relative symlinks for programs, then let's definitely do it as part of another change (personally, I think that some of these items could and should be replaced with hardlinks). Thanks, -Ngie _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"