[tex-live] updmap and /
Lars Madsen
daleif at imf.au.dk
Sun Mar 1 23:57:21 CET 2009
Karl Berry wrote:
> I any case, a script like this should not make the assumption that / is
> readable
>
> I don't agree that we have to cater to every conceivable(*) system
> configuration, but anyway, I just make my / mode 711 and ran
> cd / && rm -rf /tmp/somedir
> and it worked fine, with a couple different rm's. Therefore I surmise
> that your rm is also behaving oddly. Or maybe you have an alias or
> something? That wouldn't affect the shell script but would affect your
> command line test.
>
> Anyway, I'll think about cd-ing to the script's cwd instead.
>
> karl
>
> (*) I have never seen any reports of a system that makes / unreadable
> before. It seems fundamentally wrong-headed to me.
odd,
should be a pretty standard RedHat As 4
rm (coreutils) 5.2.1
/daleif
More information about the tex-live
mailing list