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List:       freebsd-bugs
Subject:    misc/25460: Directory/INODE Editing
From:       cwible () cwible ! com
Date:       2001-02-28 18:03:36
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> Number:         25460
> Category:       misc
> Synopsis:       Directory/INODE Editing
> Confidential:   no
> Severity:       non-critical
> Priority:       low
> Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
> State:          open
> Quarter:        
> Keywords:       
> Date-Required:
> Class:          sw-bug
> Submitter-Id:   current-users
> Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 28 10:10:01 PST 2001
> Closed-Date:
> Last-Modified:
> Originator:     Cullin Wible
> Release:        4.2-STABLE
> Organization:
> Environment:
FreeBSD xsadev.nyc.cwible.com 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Sun Feb  4 23:09:14 \
GMT 2001     root@xsadev.nyc.cwible.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/VQVPN  i386
> Description:
There appears to be a general problem in FreeBSD with access to INODE's though \
editors and miscallaenous command line programs. For example, you can edit an INODE \
directly by typing "vi /etc", which will not work on most other UN*X OS's. Some \
programs such as edit, more and less do alert you that it is a directory, but many \
programs such vi, joe and cat do not. I am not quite sure why this is, or even if it \
is a bug, but it has caused some interesting problems such as the one described \
below.

If you are going to install a new kernel and decide to move your old modules \
directory out of the way first, when you perform a "make install" you will see that a \
new modules directory is not made; instead all of the modules are appended to a file \
called /modules. However, if you perform a mkdir manually first, it works. In other \
words, some portion of the "make install" is not checking for a directory and simply \
starts appending to a file instead. If you don't understand, try my steps about how \
to repeat the problem.
> How-To-Repeat:
vi /etc

--- or ---

cd /usr/src/sys/compile/kernel_name
rm -rf /modules
make install
less /modules

> Fix:

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