Subject: Re: namei() for binary emulations
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/17/2005 21:50:48
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 08:02:37PM +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> I think it is a completely different issue.  The current problem with
> COMPAT_NETBSD32 is a side-effect of the way we do binary emulations.

Sure.

Solution might be to use a special ld.so, which would take care to load libs
from within /emul/netbsd32 first, and otherwise don't do any pathname
traslation dance in the COMPAT_NETBSD32 code itself. Do we need the
alt path checking for anything else besides the 32-bit libraries?

Jaromir
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