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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] fix for qemu-* looping forever on symlinks (patch attached)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 04:30:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607140430.01678.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e2a98be0607131931i614eae05n8b95715e13f46efd@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 14 July 2006 03:31, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> please review the attached patch (to linux-user/path.c), which i
> believe fixes the problem of qemu looping forever on symlinks when
> using -L.  it is undesirable (i believe) for the -L option to search
> all subdirectories.  this is in reference to debian bug #297572 
> (bugs.debian.org/297572).

Have you tried running dynamically linked executables with your patch?

The whole point of the -L option is so that it picks up target shared 
libraries, eg. in lib and usr/lib. By my reading your patch makes the -L 
option do absolutely nothing, which can't be right.

The proper fix is to do the lookups when a file is accesses (possibly with 
caching) not pre-scan the whole tree.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-14  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-14  2:31 [Qemu-devel] fix for qemu-* looping forever on symlinks (patch attached) Michael Gilbert
2006-07-14  3:30 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2006-07-15 22:34   ` Anderson Lizardo
2006-07-15 22:39     ` Paul Brook

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