Re: Why Doesn't Sun Fix This Frigging Bug???

From: Rhugga (ccarson_at_echeeba.com)
Date: 09/16/03 

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:27:35 -0700
To:  eedmit@NO.eed.SPAM.ericsson.PLS.se

Michael Tosch wrote:

> In article <3f671ca0$1_1@127.0.0.1>, Rhugga <rhugga@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>>Why doesn't Sun fix this damn bug, so that it is POSIX compliant?
>>
>>#mkdir data
>>#chmod 000 data
>>#ls data/.
>>#echo $?
>>0
>>
>>This command should fail. HP fixed this bug 2 years ago.
>>
>>
>
>
> Your are probably using /usr/ucb/ls, /bin/ls works ok.
> Sun has very broken tools in /usr/ucb and NEVER fixes any of them!
>
> The typical fixes are:
>
> # rm /usr/ucb/ls /usr/ucb/sed; ln -s ../bin/ls; ln -s ../bin/sed
> Then edit /usr/ucb/file, replace $* by "$@"
>

Nah, I tried gnu ls, /usr/bin/ls and etc.. Besides, this bug is uch
deeper than the commands themselves. Some posts on another boardx
suggest a kernel bug. However, this problem does not exist on the -07
rev on the Solaris 9 kernel but it does on the -08 rev.

????

-Chuck

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