Re: The /tmp and modules_install saga

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:22:39 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> I've just spent a few minutes fixing this and realised the actual fix
> is trivial. If you swap the /tmp/ with $$MODLIB/ then it keeps its
> work files in /lib/modules/... which it _must_ be able to write to anyway
> if you are going to install modules.
>
> End of problem. Patch will go to Linus shortly

Great! Which shows again that posting patches to linux-kernel is good: if there
are rough edges/security problems/major flaws, someone will fix it :-)

Greetings,

Geert (still ashamed because of the first version...)

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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