[net.unix-wizards] Another quick note on "S"

ab3@stat-l (Rsk the Wombat) (05/18/84)

(Maybe we need a mailing list for S...)

The shell script ~s/S which is created when you SYSGEN the S package
has a line in which reads:

0)	if test ! -w .; then echo Cannot write in directory `pwd`; exit 1; fi

Unfortunately, [under 4.2] the test *always* fails (since mere mortals cannot 
write in a directory); this is not desirable behavior.  This is because 
test(1) uses access(2) in a reasonable, but perhaps not quite optimal, way.
So, until we get around to hacking test(1), the fix to ~s/S is:

Delete that line!

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kre@mulga.UUCP (05/31/84)

>> (Maybe we need a mailing list for S...)

Isn't that what net.usoft.s is ??

And for what its worth, we just got S running on 4.2, m4 was
no problem when we used the version that came distributed on
the S tape ...

Robert Elz			decvax!mulga!kre