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Message-ID: <20110326193528.GA21869@albatros>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:35:28 +0300
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: absolute symlinks
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:08 +0300, gremlin@...mlin.ru wrote:
> > > /dev/fd /proc/self/fd ../proc/self/fd
> > > /dev/core /proc/kcore ../proc/kcore
> > On Ubuntu these links are absolute.
>
> Do you really think that's a good behavior to follow?
It's not a question of following, but of standard/popular (and
consequently, well tested) behavior. Though, I don't know how these
specific relative symlinks can break things :-)
Flash setup makes sense, but would changing these symlinks really help?
I mean if you have not /proc/kcore, but /some/path/proc/kcore then apps
using /proc/kcore would be broken. Maybe it is more simple to create
symlinks /dev -> /some/path/dev and /proc -> /some/path/proc ? Then
_all_ apps (not only using /some/path/dev) would work.
--
Vasiliy
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