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Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90



On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:41:56PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> 
>  realpath(3) does all symlink following in all path components.  
> (readlink -f uses it, in case you want to play with it to see how it works.
> See readlink(1).)

i haven't found the symlink code in quik yet.. just doing a quik look
around now...

>  Someone should fix quik, if it can be done just by using realpath().
> 
>  Note that the libc info page omits realpath.  This sucks.

that may be a possiblity, however that single function would need to
be extracted from libc, as linking all of libc into quik/yaboot causes
them to become unstable and/or crash.  quik i imagine is much more
sensitive to this then yaboot given the garbage firmware it has to run
on.  

glancing at quik it doesn't look like it even uses the ext2 libraries,
yaboot uses at least a stripped down e2fslib...

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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