Re: system/3055: bug in xargs?

The following reply was made to PR system/3055; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
To: henry.baragar@instantiated.ca
Cc: gnats@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: system/3055: bug in xargs?
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:41:44 -0600

 On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 10:46:39PM -0000, henry.baragar@instantiated.ca wrote:
> sara# sh /usr/src/etc/security
 

 This error message means that somewhere in your $PATH is a directory  named 'ls'. You should fix this. A very common cause for this problem  is untarring the source tarball in /usr rather than in /usr/src -- it  unpacks bin/ls/ as /usr/bin/ls/, and with /usr/bin in your $PATH before  /bin, you get EISDIR back from exec?p.  

 The real bug is that exec(3) doesn't document that execvp can return  EISDIR, but that's precisely what it returns in this case. I've filed a  bug (with possible fix) for this problem, but the mailing lists seem to  be a bit slow so I haven't gotten a bug number assigned yet (2 hours  later).  

 -andy Received on Mon Dec 30 16:58:26 2002