Ticket #147 (closed defect: wontfix)

Opened 15 years ago

Last modified 15 years ago

athdir doesn't work in compatibility mode (ie: linuxbin)

Reported by: jdreed Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: -- Keywords:
Cc: Fixed in version:
Upstream bug:

Description

athdir -t bin -p /mit/joeuser -l

Should display a list of possible bin directories, ending with /mit/joeuser/linuxbin. Instead it ends with /mit/joeuser/%mbin.

This has been broken on Linux under Athena 9 for who knows how long. (See bugs[27293]). We should either fix it, or punt support for ancient bindirs. Either is fine with me, and I'd be slightly in favor of punting, because: a) then athdir should no longer care about $ATHENA_HOSTTYPE, and we can remove that from init/cshrc; b) Nothing in "linuxbin" directories is likely to work anyway.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by jdreed

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to wontfix
  • Component set to --
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