/usr/bin/cut is a hard link to /usr/bin/alias. /usr/bin/alias is 32bit
on x86 for architectural reasons.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Dave Miner <dminer at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> Clay Baenziger wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>    This is a simple code-review for the addition of three libraries to the
>> SPARC microroot to support cut(1) used by the live-fs-root script. This is
>> due to a change in cut(1) in build 128 from the onnv push for '6793719 RFE:
>> Update /usr/bin/cut to AT&T AST "cut"' I believe.
>>
>> Code review at:
>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~clayb/12833/
>>
>
> The bug report is sub-minimal: should include the exact failure mode, at a
> minimum (not to mention your notes above about what caused it and some of
> the notes in the email you'd sent internally - as I've said long ago, if you
> feel the need to write more explanation in the review message, that means
> you didn't put enough in the bug report.  Don't make future code
> archaeologists have to piece the story together :-)
>
> I'm slightly confused why this fix is correct, as the actual path for these
> libraries would appear to be /usr/lib/sparcv9, not /usr/lib/64. Are we
> relying on some side-effect of the file resolution method working here?
>
> Why isn't there a similar problem (and fix required) on x86?
>
> Dave
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