Re: pre-2.1.123-1

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
22 Sep 1998 00:57:55 GMT

In article <360684BC.1A123F0D@ucsd.edu>,
Benjamin Redelings I <bredelin@UCSD.Edu> wrote:
>Well, just as a datapoint, 2.1.123-pre1 is working fine for me. So the
>symlink changes are having no effect here. (This is Debian 2.0). I just
>had to fix fbcon.c and do the changes that Andrea suggested in
>sb_common.c.

What happened was that one fairly rare case (trying to traverse a
non-existent directory) got the wrong error code. Instead of returning
ENOENT it returned ENOTDIR. And I didn't notice, because it only shows
up if you do something "bad" (but that "bad" thing can most easily be to
run with a bad PATH that contains non-existent directory entries, which
is apparently what a few people had).

Linus

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