Subject: kern/3472: exec on a directory no longer returns EACCESS but EISDIR
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <leo@marco.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/10/1997 16:47:00
>Number: 3472
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: exec on a directory no longer returns EACCESS but EISDIR
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Apr 10 07:50:01 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:
>Organization:
leo@dachau.marco.de in real life: Matthias Pfaller
marco GmbH, 85221 Dachau, Germany tel: +49 8131 516141
>Release: 970407
>Environment:
System: NetBSD quax 1.2D NetBSD 1.2D (QUAX) #7: Thu Apr 10 12:36:12 CEST 1997 leo@quax:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/QUAX sparc
>Description:
We have a directory with a subdirectory named "as". Up to now
compiling things at this place worked ok. After updating the
kernel gcc fails with
cc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': Is a directory
Is returning EISDIR more correct then returning EACCES?
But in any case I think it is pretty bogus where cc looks for it's
programs and files. After doing a ktrace I found that cc looks for
/usr/libexec/NetBSD/sparc/2.7.2/cc1
/usr/libexec/NetBSD/sparc/cc1
/usr/lib/gcc/NetBSD/sparc/2.7.2/cc1
/usr/lib/gcc/NetBSD/sparc/cc1
/usr/local/NetBSD/sparc/bin/NetBSD/sparc/2.7.2/cc1
/usr/local/NetBSD/sparc/bin/cc1
/usr/libexec/NetBSD/sparc/2.7.2/cc1
/usr/libexec/cc1
and so on. I think it should look for /usr/libexec/cc1 only.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir as
$ echo "main(){}" >xxx.c
$ cc -o xxx xxx.c
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: