Andreas Jaeger is not on the time zone list; be sure to include Andreas in any reply. --ado ---------- From: Andreas Jaeger[SMTP:aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 1998 3:34 PM To: tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: zic using hardlinks:-( Hi, I received the following bug report for GNU libc. Jochen says that using a hard link doesn't work for his system since /etc and /usr/share are on different filesystems. zic is from tzcode1997h. I see three possibilities: - changing the link call in zic.c to symlink. - if link fails with error EXDEV (oldpath and newpath are not on the same filesystem) retry with a symlink. - leave it the way it is. Should symbolic links used in general or only for localtime? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de
Number: 413 Category: libc Synopsis: `zic -l' tries to hard link a file between different disk partitions Confidential: no Severity: non-critical Priority: low Responsible: libc-gnats State: open Class: sw-bug Submitter-Id: unknown Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 15 07:32:17 EST 1998 Last-Modified: Originator: Jochen Voss Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern/Germany Release: libc-2.0.6 Environment: Host type: i486-pc-linux-gnu System: Linux tatonka 2.0.33 #2 Fri Jan 9 20:20:45 MET 1998 i486 Architecture: i486
Addons: localedata crypt linuxthreads Build CFLAGS: -O3 -m486 -fomit-frame-pointer Build CC: gcc -B$(common-objpfx) Build shared: yes Build profile: no Build omitfp: no Stdio: libio
Description: The command "zic -l MET" should set the local time zone by linking the file "/usr/share/zoneinfo/MET" to "/etc/localtime". It uses a hard link for this purpose. On my system this fails, because the directories "/etc" and "/usr/share/zoneinfo" are located on different disk partitions on my system. This results in the output
zic: Kann nicht von /usr/share/zoneinfo/MET nach /etc/localtime linken: Ungltiger Link ber Gertegrenzen hinweg when I execaute the above command (obviously I use `LANG=de').
How-To-Repeat: Find a system, which uses disk partitions as described above, and execute the command "zic -l MET". Fix: Modify the code in "time/zic.c" to use symlinks (if available) or to copy the file if the hard link fails. Audit-Trail: Unformatted: