[gobolinux-devel] Problems with union sandbox and accessed files

[Jonas Karlsson]

2007/1/4, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org>:
> On 1/4/07, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> /Programs/Screen/4.0.2/.SandboxInstall_Root/Programs/Ncurses/5.5/Shared/terminfo/s/screen.xterm-r6
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 mojo mojo 2444 2007-01-04 11:09
> > /Programs/Screen/4.0.2/.SandboxInstall_Root/Programs/Ncurses/5.5/Shared/terminfo/s/screen.xterm-xfree86
> >
> > As you can see the modification timestamp does not change, and if one
> > does a diff on the files there's no difference, only the last access
> > timestamp. Why are these files written to $sandbox_rw anyway?
>
> Are you sure it isn't touching these files? Did you have compiled
> Ncurses recently (today)? I'm asking this because of the date of
> 2007-01-04 seen in /Programs/Ncurses/Shared/terminfo/s/screen*.
>
It's not touching, like in updating modified time stamp, but it's
accessing those file. Just accessing files shouldn't make them be
written to rw-area?
I did compile Ncurses last night. If you look at the timestamps you
can see that the timestamps in /Programs/Ncurses and
/Programs/Screen/4.0.2/.SandboxInstall_Root/Programs/Ncurses match,
actually those are basically the same files (same contents and
modified times). Last listing shows the files with access timestamps,
which was updated when I compiled Screen and unless I have a _very_
slow machine ~11 hours for compilating screen is a bit much, don't you
think (look at the times, not only dates)? ;)

-- 
/Jonas