On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 08:56:56AM -0800, Bart Smaalders wrote:
> Robert Milkowski wrote:
> >Just a thought - maybe default path for a shell should depend on a
> >mode a OS booted (32bit vs. 64bit) so if one booted into 64bit all
> >64bit system tools are first on a path? That way isaexec won't be
> >necessary and it should work in many cases (except for script
> >providing a full path - but then the behavior for them will stay the
> >same as it is today).
> >
>
> One of the mechanisms a couple of us have been chatting about is to add
> a flag to mount to not following symlinks on mount... so that w/ lofs
> one could mount a symlink on top of a symlink (don't make that funny
> face, please :-)) so then:
>
> /usr/bin/<cmd> -> ./arch/cmd
> /usr/bin/arch -> ../32
-> 32
> or alternatively
>
> /usr/bin/arch -> ../64
-> 32
And it would probably be better to call it ".arch", since /usr/bin/arch exists.
> if I got that right pre-coffee :-).
You were close. =]
> This would also let us handle libc.so.1 w symlinks rather than hiding
> binaries w/ lofs mounts.
Which would be awesome.
Cheers,
- jonathan
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