[350] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Major problems with TeX-3.14
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeanette_Dravk@transarc.com)
Thu Oct 17 11:13:55 1991
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1991 09:44:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jeanette_Dravk@transarc.com
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com, zalewk@rpi.edu
In-Reply-To: <9110152113.AA03637@rpi.edu>
This problem with TeX is probably due to an especially non-robust version of
"getwd" in TeX that fails whenever it gets an error -- even on an
irrelevant directory. Generally, on UFS if you can see a file name in a
directory you can stat it. In AFS you are not allowed to do this unless you
have read access for that particular target.
There are a couple different paths a solution could take here. The big issue
is maintaining reasonable privacy; especially for certain special files
such as those in Mailbox.
We're looking at this problem, and will try to determine a reasonable
solution.
Jeanette Dravk
Product Support, Transarc Corporation
