Re: getting dpkg-shlibdeps to work on the Hurd
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:51:11PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> > Not all filesystems have sane st_dev and st_inode numbers.
>
> Mmmh, well they should, it's required by POSIX[1]. From looking at the code,
> Linux 2.4 behaves a lot better on this than previous versions, and the Hurd
> got it right forever (do I dare to add "of course"? No, I don't ;).
> I don't know about BSD, though (or other operating systems).
> It's a pity that st_dev is so underrated, it is very useful for these
> things.
DOS filesystems.
Also, why is using realpath so bad? Do we have to use the fastest code?
realpath() is so simple, that to complicate the code with other forms seems to
not be worth it.
> I might have a crunch at the code (assuming dpkg-search isn't written
> in python ;). I will have a look at the code and tell you how it goes.
It's C. I just took all the search/query functions, and move them to an
external file.
Btw, it's dpkg-query, not dpkg-search. My bad.
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