[13955] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 7.7T: sunsoft wrapper perl script ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Oct 29 12:45:16 1995
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 12:45:13 -0500
To: Jake Wetzel <jawetzel@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[13953] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> MOUNTNAME is undefined therefore this test is always true. Obviously it
> should be $LOCKER. I think that the only program that uses wrapper is dbx
> and since dbx is not on the normal sun path, wouldn't the mere fact that
> wrapper is being run mean that the proper locker is attached? I doubt if
> anyone would run dbx using the full afs path.
That's a very poor assumption. Lots of people run many things in AFS
either via the full afs paths, or via symlinks to the full afs path
that are not /mit/lockername/somethingbin/file.
Wrapper scripts should be written to not make silly assumptions.
--jhawk
