From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 04:11:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Location of absolute IA32 shared objects. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:47:17 +0200, Christoph Hellwig said: Christoph> Please take a look at include/asm-*/namei.h - we can Christoph> define an emulation prefix for Linux/i386 Christoph> (e.g. /emul/linux32) and all lookups will be tried there Christoph> before falling back to the native FS, This appropeach is Christoph> already used by the MIPS and SPARC ports and by linux-abi Christoph> for i386. I don't particularly like changing filenames underneath the user, but as far as I can see, it's the most systematic way to fix absolute naming issues. Unless someone has serious objections to this, I'll make this change. As far as I can see, neither LSB nor FHS address the issue of where to place emulation files, so I'll propose a prefix of "/emul/ia32-linux/" as a starter. Any objections? (Note to Sunil: the IA-64 ABI is of no help here because we're talking about files that are outside the standard library search paths and the issue is not really limited to shared objects only.) --david