The following reply was made to PR kern/36227; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/36227: new emul namei problem with symlinks
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:00:56 +0200

 On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:45:00AM +0000, Mark Davies wrote:
 > 	# echo "hello" > /tmp/test
 > 	# ln -s /tmp/test /emul/linux/etc/foo
 > 	# /emul/linux/bin/cat /etc/foo
 > 	/emul/linux/bin/cat: /etc/foo: No such file or directory
 
 I think this is a feature of the new code, not a bug (think links
 to /lib in /usr/lib when doing netbsd32 emul)
 
 What should work is:
 
   cd /emul/linux/etc && ln -s /../tmp/test foo
 
 Martin