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Subject: Re: [PATCH OSSTEST 1/2] uboot: use "readlink -f"
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:31:26 +0100
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Am 27.03.15 um 10:28 schrieb Ian Campbell:
> Unfortunately this has unexpectedly made things worse. See:
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/36757/
>
> The issue is that readlink -f returns the full absolute path, so given
>      $ ls /boot/xen*
>      xen -> xen-X.Y
>      xen-X.Y
> Then:
>      $ readlink /boot/xen
>      xen-X.Y
>      $ readlink -f /boot/xen
>      /boot/xen-X.Y
>
> This breaks because on these systems /boot is a separate partition, so
> from the bootloaders point of view we need to be accessing /xen-X.Y
> not /boot/xen-X.Y.
>
> I don't know of an easy way to get the path of a file relative to the
> filesystem root which contains it. So I would propose to drop the second
> hunk and the second paragraph of the commit message and to make the
> first hunk simply "flaskpolicy=$flaskpolicy" (rather than unescaping the
> usages, this will make it easier to change in the future).
>
> I think that resubmission will end up being to the new colo at this
> point.
>
Hi Ian,
wouldn't the following snippet of code actually achieve what you want:

mylink="$(readlink -f /boot/xen)"
relpath="${mylink#$(stat -c "%m" "$mylink")}"

Regards Atom2

P.S. I know I still owe you the 64bit stat counter changes.
I haven't forgotten about it, but have not been able to dig into it yet.