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From: "Anderson Lizardo" <anderson.lizardo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] fix for qemu-* looping forever on symlinks (patch
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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
(/etc/ld.so.cache)? So a command like

qemu-arm -L /target program

would make qemu look for /target/etc/ld.so.cache as its cache, and a
command like:

qemu-arm -L /target /target/sbin/ldconfig

would update this cache. Unless the cache you are proposing has
different purposes than ld.so's cache?

Regards,
-- 
Anderson Lizardo