[3322] in testers
Re: 8.1.4 sparc: non-/-cwd system processes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jul 15 14:28:51 1997
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 14:28:31 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[3222] in testers"
>| I'm not sure what to think about cron and vold. I assume that this is
>| desired behavior on their part. A bug report should be submitted to
>| Sun regarding the fact they do not document the fact that cron and
>| vold chdir() silently. It should be referenced in the man page,
>| otherwise users cannot know where to expect core dumps.
> (and of course, in the meantime, compatibility symlinks should be
> added to the appropriate directories).
I'm not at all sure that we could convince Sun that they should
document where programs that aren't supposed to dump core will dump
core.
We're not likely to create compatibility symlinks, since it's quite
messy and there doesn't appear to be a practical problem.
