Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:17:05PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 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...
Quik does in fact use the ext2 libraries. It links them, at least :)
Adding symlink support would probably be a major pain, though.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
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