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Re: avoid mkdir/selinux failure when mknod is a shell built-in


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: avoid mkdir/selinux failure when mknod is a shell built-in
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:45:31 +0200
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Unfortunately, the technique doesn't work with that shell:
>
>   openbsd$ ./mknod --version|head -1
>   mknod (GNU coreutils) 6.10.188-7cb24
>   openbsd$ PATH=. /bin/sh -c 'mknod --version'|head -1

What about /bin/sh -c 'exec mknod --version'?

Andreas.

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