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diff --git a/contrib/awk/README_d/README.tests b/contrib/awk/README_d/README.tests deleted file mode 100644 index 1c969d7..0000000 --- a/contrib/awk/README_d/README.tests +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 06:07:06 -0600 (MDT) -From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> -To: arnold@gnu.org -Cc: beebe@math.utah.edu, sysstaff@math.utah.edu, othmer@math.utah.edu -Subject: gawk-3.0.4 and a GNU/Linux gotcha - -Yesterday, I was assisting a colleague install some software on his -GNU/Linux machine for which uname -r reports 2.2.14. - -A (mis)feature of this system, which I've never encountered before, -broke the build of one of my programs, and also of gawk-3.0.4. - -Namely, the kernel will not execute anything that resides in /tmp, -though it will if the same script is in /usr/tmp! - -% cat /tmp/foo.sh -#! /bin/sh -echo hello - -ls -l /tmp/foo.sh --rwxr-xr-x 1 othmer math 22 Apr 21 10:34 /tmp/foo.sh* - -% /tmp/foo.sh -bash: /tmp/foo.sh: Permission denied - -% cp /tmp/foo.sh /usr/tmp - -% /usr/tmp/foo.sh -hello - -Thus, programs that do a temporary install in /tmp, as some of mine do -in order to run the validation suite, will fail. - -gawk-3.0.4, and likely other gawk versions, hits this problem too. It -fails because test/poundbang starts with - -#! /tmp/gawk -f - -I tracked down where it comes from: - -% grep /tmp /etc/fstab -/dev/hda3 /tmp ext2 rw,nosuid,noexec,nouser,auto,async,nodev 1 1 - !!!!!! - -Since this is done via a mount command, potentially ANY directory tree -could be mounted with noexec. |
