On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:17:05PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:41:56PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > > realpath(3) does all symlink following in all path components. > > (readlink -f uses it, in case you want to play with it to see how it works. > > See readlink(1).) > > i haven't found the symlink code in quik yet.. just doing a quik look > around now... > > > Someone should fix quik, if it can be done just by using realpath(). > > > > Note that the libc info page omits realpath. This sucks. > > that may be a possiblity, however that single function would need to > be extracted from libc, as linking all of libc into quik/yaboot causes > them to become unstable and/or crash. quik i imagine is much more > sensitive to this then yaboot given the garbage firmware it has to run > on. > > glancing at quik it doesn't look like it even uses the ext2 libraries, > yaboot uses at least a stripped down e2fslib...
Quik does in fact use the ext2 libraries. It links them, at least :) Adding symlink support would probably be a major pain, though. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
