From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Subject: Re: Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:19:22 +0200 Organization: Universitaet Freiburg, Institut f. Informatik Message-ID: <20070717201922.GA28072@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> References: <9693D8E9-6F11-4AA1-AFCA-7E8456FA6420@wincent.com> <7vejje3a4k.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070717114024.GA12215@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> <7vhco2ancg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Wincent Colaiuta , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 17 22:19:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IAtW8-0006cp-UH for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:19:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757610AbXGQUT3 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:19:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757233AbXGQUT3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:19:29 -0400 Received: from atlas.informatik.uni-freiburg.de ([132.230.150.3]:39829 "EHLO atlas.informatik.uni-freiburg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755365AbXGQUT2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:19:28 -0400 Received: from login.informatik.uni-freiburg.de ([132.230.151.6]) by atlas.informatik.uni-freiburg.de with esmtps (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IAtW2-0007QE-Fd; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:19:26 +0200 Received: from login.informatik.uni-freiburg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by login.informatik.uni-freiburg.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l6HKJNK4028862; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:19:23 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from zeisberg@localhost) by login.informatik.uni-freiburg.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.12.11/Submit) id l6HKJMp3028860; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:19:22 +0200 (MEST) Mail-Followup-To: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= , Junio C Hamano , Wincent Colaiuta , git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vhco2ancg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello Junio, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig writes: > > (That is, Solaris' tar has the 'C' option, which is quite a good > > indication, that it's included in POSIX :-) >=20 > Oh, I cannot resist ;-) >=20 > Solaris has unlink(2) capable of removing a directory, but I do > not think it is included in POSIX. I don't have access to the POSIX documents, but it would surprise me if they forbid unlink(2) being able to unlink directories. :-) You need some effort to support tar -C and to catch directories in unlink. So Sun put the effort in tar, because it may be needed to be conformant to POSIX or some other standard. Best regards Uwe --=20 Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig