pathchk bug

[Tim J. Robbins]

I believe there's a bug in the pathchk utility in GNU sh-utils 2.0j.
Instead of checking the return value of the function against zero, it checks
the address of the function, which is never equal.

The fix is trivial:

--- pathchk.c.old       Tue May 21 20:29:23 2002
+++ pathchk.c   Tue May 21 20:30:38 2002
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@
       if (!last_elem)
        {
          exists = dir_ok (path);
-         if (dir_ok == 0)
+         if (exists == 0)
            {
              free (parent);
              return 1;


Tim