svn commit: r314464 - head/usr.sbin/yppush

Ngie Cooper yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 22:32:29 UTC 2017


On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at 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


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