Since kernel 2.1.123 there are a new feature with the fork/execvp function.
If you define an invalid/non-existant path, fork fails.
>rm -rf /apa
>rm /bad
>ln -s /apa /bad
>setenv PATH /bad/bin:$PATH
Try this...
>tar -tvzf /usr/src/linux-2.1.123.tar.gz
tar (child): Cannot exec gzip: Not a directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
'mtv' installed in /usr/local/bin fails with this error:
>mtv
g2a_init: execvp: Not a directory
g2a_init: cannot execvp mtvp
mtv: mtv.c:5042: fatal: cannot start player (mtvp) - could not fork: Not a directory
If you now create the directory "/apa" it works since the symbolic link
is ok.
>mkdir /apa
>tar -tvzf /usr/src/linux-2.1.123.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x torvalds/torvalds 0 1998-09-28 05:29 linux/
-rw-r--r-- torvalds/torvalds 12398 1998-09-20 20:38 linux/Makefile
drwxr-xr-x torvalds/torvalds 0 1998-09-28 05:28 linux/fs/
.......
Shouldn't this be corrected ?
/Mag
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