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Re: Debian Boot Floppies CVS: boot-floppies porter



On Thu Nov 04, 1999 at 03:36:40PM -0800, Matt Porter wrote:
> CVSROOT:	/cvs/debian-boot
> Module name:	boot-floppies
> Changes by:	porter	1999-11-04 15:36:40
> 
> Modified files:
> 	utilities/busybox: utility.c 
> 
> Log message:
> * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
> hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
> followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc.
> 
> recursiveAction() now lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it
> won't follow links as the name suggests.  With followLinks==TRUE it
> should stat the file so it follows them.  When followLinks==FALSE (as
> is the case with block_device() calls), we now check if we encounter
> a link and skip it.

Oops, mea culpa.  Good catch, thanks!  Merged into my sources for
busybox 0.32 (due out tonight).   

 -Erik

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