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-# trickery to ensure we can always update this file, even when the operating system has some
-# rude behavior with regard to file locking (ahem, windows...).
-# and even more rudeness is that the pwd and $TMP may not always be in the same form,
-# which causes endless confusion and badness. that's why we get the pwd reading for TMP
-# first so we can do an orange-to-orange compare.
+# trickery to ensure we can always update feisty meow, including this specific
+# file, even when the operating system has some rude behavior with regard to
+# file locking (ahem, windoze). and even more rudeness is that the pwd and
+# $TMP may not always be in the same form, which causes endless confusion and
+# badness. that's why we get the pwd reading for TMP first so we can do an
+# oranges-to-oranges compare.
tmpdir="$(cd $TMP; \pwd)"
if [ "$(\pwd)" != "$tmpdir" ]; then
if [ ! -z "$DEBUG_FEISTY_MEOW" ]; then
new_name="$TMP/zz_$(basename $0)"
\cp -f "$0" "$new_name"
test_or_die "failed to copy this script up to the TMP directory. exploit attempted?"
- cd "$TMP"
+ pushd "$TMP" &>/dev/null
+ test_or_die "changing to TMP directory: $TMP"
chmod a+x "$new_name"
test_or_die "chmodding of file: $new_name"
exec "$new_name"
test_or_die "execing cloned getemscript"
+ popd &>/dev/null
fi
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