Re: Breaking out of the emulation dir

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:51:48AM +0200, Edgar Fu? wrote:
 > > No. The problem is that thesymlink needs to point to 
 > > /../usr/pkg/etc/tsm/dsm.opt rather than /usr/pkg/etc/tsm/dsm.opt.
 > > 
 > > The "/../" is magic and leads to the real root. Just "/" leads to the
 > > emulation root.
 >
 > But that means that "absolute" symlink targets inside the emulation
 > are actually emulation-relative (unless prefixed with the magic
 > "/../").

Right.

 > That sounds reasonable (especially for libraries), but could I have
 > known that?

as I posted a couple days ago, I'm not sure where/if this is
documented.

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David A. Holland
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