[tor-talk] hidden files in tbb/linux directories, are these common files or rogue?

[Robert Ransom]

On 2012-01-22, ming at tormail.net <ming at tormail.net> wrote:
> I located some hidden files in the extracted tbb/linux, current version,
> directories, are these common files or rogue and what generates these
> files?
>
> Within the Lib directory:
>
> size / name / sha1sum
>
> 1264 .shared-library-name-list
> d43f3c1d4d213f8a911d3eb8725182d0f3dc61f0
>
> 808   .shared-library-rename-action-list
> 8db99e99f31310b3f8e7dd9cab341090fc30b88d
>
> Within the Lib/libz directory:
>
> size / name
>
> 83 .shared-library-name-list
> 18e05ed73a6531d3f0e097ce9d562788fe50cd86
>
> 56 .shared-library-rename-action-list
> 258051374c38f7d8c1a38648e3116ada648df1b4
>
> Contents of the Lib hidden files:

[omitted]

> Do other tor user's tbb/linux extracted directories contain these, too?
> What are they?

Those files are generated by one of the TBB-for-Linux build scripts
(https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git/blob/HEAD:/build-scripts/remove-shared-lib-symlinks#l182),
so that if that script ever misbehaves, I (or whoever else has to
debug it) can find out what it did and what it was trying to do
without having to rebuild all of TBB.


Robert Ransom