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Re: 8.4.3 (8.4.2 for Linux) patch release out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 8 23:09:28 2000
Message-Id: <200006090309.XAA20244@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "08 Jun 2000 22:47:28 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:09:20 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Obvious guess:
> cd $foo
> in a case where foo turns out to be unset (or set to all
> whitespace)?
Ah, looking at the source, you're almost right; the shell also has to
decide it doesn't know how to cd to the home directory, meaning HOME
is unset. Which would be the case during an automatic update, at
least at boot time.
Thanks.
