Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/09/24/10:12:31
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Charles Sandmann wrote:
> > rm: directory djgpp.2/gnu/gcc-3.03/build.djg/i586-pc-msdosdjgpp/libstdc_/src/libs/libstdc_.lax/recycled' is write protected; descend into it anyway?
> >
> > So it thinks those fake directories are ``write-protected''...
>
> recycled is write protected, but I did not get a similar message for
> the next directory...
I get this message for _all_ directories it ``finds''.
> This particular version of Windows you get lucky - but if someone
> sets lfn=n on Windows and does an rm -rf in the wrong spot you nuke the
> hard drive? Documentation isn't good enough for that, we *MUST* put
> a check and a fix in, even if it bloats chdir and makes it slow.
I agree. I was describing what I saw in the hope it will add another
data point, not to argue that we can leave this issue alone.
> > It's different here: I, too, am dumped in the lower directory, but
> > running DJGPP programs _does_ work, and those programs behave as if
> > they were in the root. For example, `ls' prints the names of the
> > files in the root directory. Unsetting LFN gets me back the normal
> > behavior, i.e. `ls' prints nothing (as the directory is empty).
>
> Aren't you petrified that by setting an environment variable we treat
> a non-root directory as root on one of the most common OSes out there?
I am. I am not arguing with you, I'm reporting what I saw on my system.
> By the way, I found no problems with number of levels, just with the
> short name length (fixed buffer size of 64 chars).
The deep nesting only shows in some specific system calls, I forget which
ones (`rename'?)
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