>Number:         11198
>Category:       standards
>Synopsis:       POSIX.2: No pathchk utility
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    standards-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 12 05:37:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ben Harris
>Release:        2000-02-07
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD cromarty 1.4X NetBSD 1.4X (CROMARTY) #9: Wed May  3 23:49:51 BST 2000
     bjh21@cromarty:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/CROMARTY macppc

>Description:
POSIX.2 mandates a "pathchk" utility, for checking whether a given
pathname can sensibly be created.  NetBSD doesn't seem to provide one.

>How-To-Repeat:
$ export PATH=`getconf PATH`
$ pathchk /test
pathchk: not found

>Fix:
None, sorry.

-- 
Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>


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