[18860] in Athena Bugs
linux 8.4.20: zctl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Jones)
Tue Mar 6 17:20:54 2001
Message-Id: <200103062220.RAA04993@PIXIE.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 17:20:38 -0500
From: Ray Jones <thouis@MIT.EDU>
System name: PIXIE.MIT.EDU
Type and version: i686 8.4.20
Display type: XFree86 3.3.6 SVGA
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: twm
What were you trying to do?
This is a continuation of a discussion with ghudson, re: "zctl add"
breaking symbolic links to .zephyr.subs.
(I apologize for starting a new sendbug. I removed all of the
messages from the previous conversation.)
What's wrong:
If .zephyr.subs is a symbolic link (e.g., to ~/Private/.zephyr.subs)
"zctl add" will replace it with a plain file.
What should have happened:
I realize why this is necessary (non-atomicity of file writes), but
would like to suggest a fix: add the ability to specify the location
of the .zephyr.subs file with an environment variable. From my
browsing of the zephyr clients sources, it seems like these changes
would be reasonably minimal. In fact, I'm willing to make them
myself, if they would make it back into the main tree.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
