[Bug-stow] Re: problems with "/stow" as stow directory (fwd)

[Klaus Stehle]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Klaus Stehle wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:51:06 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Klaus Stehle <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: problems with "/stow" as stow directory (fwd)
>
> Hallo,
>
> There are some problems with stow (version 1.3.3) if the stow directory is
> "/stow" so that the default target directory should be the root
> directory "/".
>

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>
>   b) In the subroutine "Unstow" one line is added near line 255 in stow.in
>   after the "} elsif (-d &JoinPaths($Target, $targetdir, $content)) {"
>
>     next if !&FindStowPath(&JoinPaths($targetdir, $content));
Oooh!
This is dangerous. Don't try that patch!
May delete whole installation :-(


Cheers
Klaus