Re: Kernel 2.2.17 bug found

[Thomas Köhler <jean-luc@picard.franken.de>]

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:20:22PM +0200,
Andrea Pintori <1997s112@educ.disi.unige.it> wrote:
> 
> I've a Debian dist, Kernel 2.2.17, no patches, all packages are stable.

I've Debian unstable, Kernel 2.2.17

> here what I found:
> 
> [/tmp] mkdir old
> [/tmp] chdir old
> [/tmp/old] mv . ../new
> [/tmp/old]                    (should be /tmp/new !!)

Uhm, no. $PWD only gets updated on cd, not on mv. Thus, the old value is
OK!

> [/tmp/old] mkdir fff
> error: cannot write...
> [tmp/old] ls > fff
> error: cannot write...

This seems wrong. But I'd rather say this is a bug in your shell, not in
the kernel!

/tmp> mkdir old
/tmp> cd old 
/tmp/old> mv . ../new
/tmp/old> mkdir fff
/tmp/old> ls -al 
total 12
drwxr-xr-x    3 jean-luc jean-luc     4096 Nov  9 16:46 .
drwxrwxrwt    8 root     root         4096 Nov  9 16:46 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 jean-luc jean-luc     4096 Nov  9 16:46 fff
/tmp/old> cd ../new
/tmp/new> ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x    3 jean-luc jean-luc     4096 Nov  9 16:46 .
drwxrwxrwt    8 root     root         4096 Nov  9 16:46 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 jean-luc jean-luc     4096 Nov  9 16:46 fff

Works for both bash-2.04 and zsh-3.1.9-dev7 (as in Debian unstable).

> Does anybody knew this bug?

Well, I can't even reproduce it ;)

Ciao,
Thomas

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