[3322] in bugtraq
Re: Tired of /tmp? Here's a proposed solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (der Mouse)
Tue Sep 3 11:55:49 1996
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 06:54:21 -0400
Reply-To: der Mouse <mouse@Holo.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Holo.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
> Hmmm...before reading this article, try this on your platform.
> #!/bin/sh
> mkdir empty-directory
> ln -s test-directory empty-directory/test-symlink
> mkdir empty-directory/test-symlink
> if [ -d empty-directory/test-directory ]
> then result="does"
> else result="does NOT"
> fi
> echo "mkdir $result follow symlinks on `uname -msr`"
> Here's my results:
> mkdir does NOT follow symlinks on Linux 2.0.11 i586
> mkdir does NOT follow symlinks on SunOS 5.3 sun4m
And mine, in case anyone cares:
/tmp/mkdir-test: uname: not found
mkdir does follow symlinks on
mkdir: empty-directory/test-symlink: File exists
mkdir does NOT follow symlinks on NetBSD 1.2_BETA sun3
The former machine is a NeXT running NeXT's release 2.1.
der Mouse
mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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