[18959] in Athena Bugs
Re: netscape burps error on sun4x_58
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Thu May 17 15:27:13 2001
Message-Id: <200105171927.PAA15893@multics.mit.edu>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
cc: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>, bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 May 2001 15:04:06 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 15:27:10 -0400
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
> Yup, that was always a little bit of a hack. Do you have any
> recommendations on a better way to test if the user's homedir is in AFS? I
> personally didn't write that test, but I presume my predecessor wouldn't
> have used it if he'd had a better one available. Or maybe I presume wrong
> :)
fs whereis might do the trick:
[multics]-[~]-> fs whereis .
File . is on host ERIS.MIT.EDU
[multics]-[~]-> echo $status
0
[multics]-[~]-> fs whereis /
fs: Invalid argument; it is possible that / is not in AFS.
[multics]-[~]-> echo $status
1
--
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>
