RE: [PATCH] modules_install

Brian Schau (bsc@fleggaard.dk)
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:36:10 +0200


Couldn't one use constructs like:

$HOME/tmp

or

~/tmp

????

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew D. Pitts [SMTP:mpitts@suite224.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 4:35 AM
> To: Michael Ricketts; linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] modules_install
>
> Fellow kernel hackers,
> >
> > On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> >
> > > > > + if [ -s /tmp/.misc.$$$$ ]; then inst_mod /tmp/.misc.$$$$
> misc;
> fi; \
> > > > > + rm -f /tmp/.misc.$$$$ /tmp/.allmods.$$$$; \
> > > >
> > > > Linus, please dont apply this "fix"
> > >
> > > What's wrong with /root/tmp/ ?
> > >
> > What happens if you aren't root?
> > And anyway, /root doesn't exist on all machines.
> It does on Slackware and Caldera that I know of and probably on Redhat
> as
> well. I don't have any experience with SuSe or any European
> distributions.
>
> Matthew D. Pitts
> N8OHU
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