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Description of problem: The lame config_filter() - used by modprobe and depmod - doesn't even bother to exclude directories, pipes, etc. It should do a stat on each file to check whether they are an ordinary file or not. As it stands if you have an RCS subdirectory in modprobe.d then modprobe complains bitterly each and every time modprobe runs. CVS is excluded so why not RCS and SCCS subdirectories? And why not ALL subdirectories? In any case this sort of code should not exists - the readdir() loop should simply ignore EVERYTHING without a .conf suffix. Why do anything different? Yes, it might break something for somebody with a really old system perhaps, but the breakage would become fairly apparent fairly quickly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): module-init-tools-3.16-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mkdir /etc/modprobe.d/RCS 2. modprobe ipv6 Actual results: 2. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/RCS, it will be ignored in a future release. Expected results: 2. Additional info: This is an excellent example of awful code.
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