pathchk bug
"Tim J. Robbins" <[email protected]> Wed, 22 May 2002 10:54:43 +1000
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.sh-utils.bugs |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I believe there's a bug in the pathchk utility in GNU sh-utils 2.0j.
Instead of checking the return value of the function against zero, it checks
the address of the function, which is never equal.
The fix is trivial:
--- pathchk.c.old Tue May 21 20:29:23 2002
+++ pathchk.c Tue May 21 20:30:38 2002
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@
if (!last_elem)
{
exists = dir_ok (path);
- if (dir_ok == 0)
+ if (exists == 0)
{
free (parent);
return 1;
Tim