Subject: Re: namei() for binary emulations
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/06/2005 01:16:14
In article <20050705211915.GA1749@gallia.cubidou.net>,
Quentin Garnier  <cube@cubidou.net> wrote:
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>On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:30:29PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 5, 2005, at 12:12 PM, matthew green wrote:
>> 
>> >an easier fix would be to use relative links in {/emul/netbsd32,}/ 
>> >usr/lib*.
>> 
>> Hm, maybe we need a @emul magic link? :-)
>
>And how does namei() guess what to expand it to?  That's the whole
>point of my hack, making namei() aware it is being used under binary
>emulation.

There is /../ that by-passes /emul lookup, and install -l r that helps
with relative symlinks.

christos