[syslinux] tftpd - r rule seems to be still broken

[H. Peter Anvin]

Radek Vokal wrote:
> This is an example rule from sample.rules
> 
> r	^[^/]		/tftpboot/\0	# Convert non-absolute files
> 
> but it seems to be broken in tftpd-0.40. This comes from syslog when
> accesing sample file on server. 
> 
> Dec 22 14:11:35 localhost in.tftpd[10443]: r rules cannot be inverted,
> line 1:        ^[^/]           /tftpboot/\0    # Convert non-absolute
> files
> 
> this was already present in 0.39 version and according to the changelog
> it should be already fixed
> 
> Changes in 0.40:
> 	Fix bug which would cause "r" remapping rules to be
> 	incorrectly rejected.
> 
> but doesn't seem so
> 

It has been fixed; I just verified that it has.  0.40 will load the 
sample.rules file just fine.  I think you're probably still running 
0.39; make sure you kill any running processes after installing a new 
server.

	-hpa