On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:09:00PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2002 15:15, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:07:36PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > What is the relevance of `closed source apps' here? > > That if it were not a closed-source app, I would have fixed it to use a > > saner name for its configuration file. :) > You could always use a LD_PRELOAD hack to redirect such accesses to a > different file name. It's not difficult to do. Sure, but I'm not filing a bug against the app in question, I'm filing a bug against dpkg for not handling extraneous special characters. :) I already have a workaround in place for the app... Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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