Subject: Re: pkg/19436: interrupting pkg_add may corrupt filesystem
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/19/2002 21:54:20
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:18:13AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> this sounds like the "pkg_add" breaks when it tries to clean up the
> "pen" it creates and instead runs "rm -rf /".  i suspect that the
> exec format errors are caused by missing ld.elf_so.

Hum, I guess I've been luky :)
The error returned for missing ld.elf_so should probably be something
else than "exec format error". This would help diagnose cases like that.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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