[pca] 137137: Unsupported root filesystem

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Mon Mar 29 09:44:36 CEST 2010


Martin Paul wrote:
> Myers, Mike wrote:
>> I ran into this and spent some time tracking it down:
>>
>> http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5421069&messageID=10891459
> 
> Congratulations on isolating this bug. I'm sure you had a lot of fun 
> with 125555-06 :) It's a good example why a programmer shouldn't rely on 
> any assumptions - obviously the author of the prepatch script couldn't 
> imagine a root filesystem which isn't named "/". Though of course the 
> output of "df -n" isn't really nicely machine-readable either ..

Good news - the current revision of the "patch behavior patch" 
(125555-07, from Mar 26) delivers new versions of the pre*/post* 
scripts, fixing the broken awk code.

Martin.



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