[19962] in Athena Bugs
Re: Fixed lndir symlink bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Nov 5 10:39:45 2001
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 10:38:53 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200111051538.KAA15762@multics.mit.edu>
To: ghudson@mit.edu, svalente@mit.edu
CC: bug-sipb@mit.edu, bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[5270] in SIPB bug reports"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Blast from the past; back when 2-digit years were still in vogue,
on Fri, 31 Mar 95 14:06:19 -0500, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
wrote in [5270]:
| I would also like to change the name of lndir so that it doesn't
| conflict with the X11 version of the same program (which makes links
| in the current directory instead of making a new one, highly annoying
| if you get the wrong program). The name "linkdir" comes to mind.
I'd really like to make this happen, because having a sipb locker
"lndir" in one's path on Solaris, and the X11 lndir in one's path
under Linux, just bites.
I'm not sure the best way to handle the transition strategy. It seems
like we would like to have an X11 "lndir" in the SIPB locker at the
end of the day.
I propose:
7 Nov 2001 lndir in SIPB reinstalled as "linkdir"
7 Nov 2001 X11 lndir installed in SIPB as "lndir-x11"
12 Nov 2001 "lndir" in SIPB replaced with a wrapper
script giving a message referring the user
to both "lndir-x11" and "linkdir", unless
SIPB_X11_LNDIR_HACK is set, in which case
it just runs lndir-x11.
17 Mar 2002 "lndir" wrapper is replaced and X11 lndir
installed as "lndir"
17 Mar 2002 "lndir-x11" replaced with a wrapper script
that indicates it is deprecated in favor
of "lndir" and will be going away soon.
15 Apr 2002 "lndir-x11" removed.
Comments? If I don't hear from anyone, I'll just go ahead on the timeline
listed.
--jhawk
