Subject: Re: Absolute symlinks and binary emulation
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: None <cube@cubidou.net>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 06/17/2004 14:48:53
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:22:15PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>    
>    That would also avoid the use of the somewhat hacky emul_find, and we
>    wouldn't need to use CHECK_ALT* macros in all releveant syscall
>    emulations.
> 
> 
> note that netbsd32 is designed to only use the emulroot for a minimal
> number of things - namely, those that shlibs need.  everything else
> should reference the normal root as-is...
> 
> other emulations have different levels, but in all cases not all
> calls want/need to be checked..

Ah, right.  So the logic has to stay in emul_find.  I'll try to code
something to handle the symlinks there, then.

Thanks for the insight.

Quentin Garnier.