Bug#898483: PHYSFS_setWriteDir creates an empty file

[Markus Koschany]

Hello Patrick,

Am 12.05.2018 um 16:19 schrieb James Cowgill:
[...]
> I think this is a bug in libphysfs 3.0.1. It seems that in this version
> (unlike 2.0.3), PHYSFS_setWriteDir has the side effect of creating an
> empty file if the path it is given does not exist. This will later cause
> PHYSFS_mkdir to fail even if it's given the right path.
> 
> This would also explain why this bug is not present in stretch.

A bug was reported against lincity-ng but it looks more like this is a
regression/bug in libphysfs 3.0.1. The setWriteDir function creates an
empty file which makes the mkdir function fail later on. Shall I
reassign this bug report to libphysfs?

Regards,

Markus

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