From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>
Cc: 21010@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21010: eject fails because of hardcoded path to umount
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 18:31:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150708163144.GA11642@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871tgig7w2.fsf@gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 02:18:21PM +0200, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:
> eject: unable to exec /bin/umount of `/mnt/usb'
The culprit is in the source code of util-linux-2.25.2/sys-utils/eject.c:
681: execl("/bin/umount", "/bin/umount", name, "-n", NULL);
683: execl("/bin/umount", "/bin/umount", name, NULL);
685: errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("unable to exec /bin/umount of `%s'"), name);
This should be easy to patch, but there are other utilities with the same
problem. A hopeless case seems to be "whereis": It looks for files in fixed
lists of locations such as
static const char *bindirs[] = {
"/usr/bin",
"/usr/sbin",
"/usr/lib",
"/usr/lib64",
"/bin",
"/sbin",
"/etc",
"/usr/etc",
"/lib",
"/lib64",
"/usr/games",
"/usr/games/bin",
"/usr/games/lib",
"/usr/emacs/etc",
"/usr/lib/emacs/*/etc",
"/usr/TeX/bin",
...
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-08 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-08 12:18 bug#21010: eject fails because of hardcoded path to umount Alex Sassmannshausen
2015-07-08 16:31 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2015-07-08 22:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-14 12:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
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