On 2008-10-14 15:35 +0200, Daniel Abel wrote:

> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.14.16.6ubuntu4
> Severity: normal

Please report Ubuntu bugs in Launchpad, not in the Debian BTS.

> Running 'dpkg -l' gives the following if $PATH contains an unreachable
> NFS-mounted directory:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l
> dpkg: failed to exec dpkg-query: Input/output error
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 
>
> removing that directory from $PATH fixes the problem.
>
> I assume this is caused by dpkg looking for something in any directory
> in $PATH and not skipping unaccessible ones. 

It is the glibc's execvp() function that performs this search and fails,
there is nothing dpkg can do about that.  See exec(3).

Sven



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