ash is wrong about [ -w Temp ], so rebaseall fails
Tim McDaniel
tmcd@panix.com
Wed Nov 30 22:46:00 GMT 2011
Windows 7, 64-bit, up-to-date Cygwin.
I got "unable to remap to same address as parent" and did a rebaseall.
It failed:
$ /bin/rebaseall
rebaseall: '/Users/TMCDAN~1/AppData/Local/Temp' is not writable
I hand-disabled the condition that produced that and did some
testing. I ran these commands in bash:
$ [[ -d /Users/TMCDAN~1/AppData/Local/Temp ]] && echo yes || echo no
yes
$ [[ -w /Users/TMCDAN~1/AppData/Local/Temp ]] && echo yes || echo no
yes
$ [ -d /Users/TMCDAN~1/AppData/Local/Temp ] && echo yes || echo no
yes
$ [ -w /Users/TMCDAN~1/AppData/Local/Temp ] && echo yes || echo no
yes
$ /bin/ash -c ' [ -d /Users/TMCDAN~1/AppData/Local/Temp ] && echo yes || echo no '
yes
$ /bin/ash -c ' [ -w /Users/TMCDAN~1/AppData/Local/Temp ] && echo yes || echo no'
no
$ /bin/ash -c ' [ -d /Users/tmcdaniel/AppData/Local/Temp ] && echo yes || echo no'
yes
$ /bin/ash -c ' [ -w /Users/tmcdaniel/AppData/Local/Temp ] && echo yes || echo no'
no
So bash and ash disagree on whether this Temp directory is writable.
$ echo long > /Users/tmcdaniel/AppData/Local/Temp/long
$ echo short > /Users/TMCDAN~1/AppData/Local/Temp/short
$ ash -c 'echo ashlong > /Users/tmcdaniel/AppData/Local/Temp/ashlong'
$ ash -c 'echo ashshort > /Users/TMCDAN~1/AppData/Local/Temp/ashshort'
$ ls -l /Users/tmcdaniel/AppData/Local/Temp/*short* /Users/tmcdaniel/AppData/Local/Temp/*long*
-rw-r--r--+ 1 tmcdaniel Domain Users 8 Nov 30 16:10 /Users/tmcdaniel/AppData/Local/Temp/ashlong
-rw-r--r--+ 1 tmcdaniel Domain Users 9 Nov 30 16:11 /Users/tmcdaniel/AppData/Local/Temp/ashshort
-rw-r--r--+ 1 tmcdaniel Domain Users 5 Nov 30 16:10 /Users/tmcdaniel/AppData/Local/Temp/long
-rw-r--r--+ 1 tmcdaniel Domain Users 6 Nov 30 16:10 /Users/tmcdaniel/AppData/Local/Temp/short
So bash is right about it being writable, and ash is wrong.
(And /Users/tmcdaniel and /Users/TMCDAN~1 do indeed point to the same
directory.)
--
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com
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