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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] fix for qemu-* looping forever on symlinks (patch attached)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:39:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607152339.16734.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b5833aa0607151534w266d1164if03f75ff1de3978b@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 15 July 2006 23:34, Anderson Lizardo wrote:
> On 7/13/06, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Is it possible to use the same cache format as ld.so

I don't think there's any point having a persistent cache, and I don't thin 
the ld.so format would be particularly appropriate either. Qemu just does 
straight filename translation.

Paul

      reply	other threads:[~2006-07-15 22:39 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
2006-07-15 22:34   ` Anderson Lizardo
2006-07-15 22:39     ` Paul Brook [this message]

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