Sysvinit and System.map (Was: dangling symlink System.map)
Santiago Vila Doncel writes:
> I have just installed a fresh system from scratch using the latest boot
> floppies. At the end, I had a dangling symlink:
>
> System.map -> boot/System.map-
>
> pointing to nowhere. No idea how this happened.
Don't know either. But it's been some time I wonder why this link
isn't updated on boot to point to "boot/System.map-`uname -r`", or
suppress the link and issue a warning if the latter is absent. This
would ensure correctness, I think.
Is there a good reason not to do so ?
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Yann Dirson
e-mail: dirson@univ-mlv.fr
http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson
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