Hello Bart,
Thursday, February 26, 2009, 4:56:56 PM, you wrote:
BS> 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).
>>
BS> One of the mechanisms a couple of us have been chatting about is to add
BS> a flag to mount to not following symlinks on mount... so that w/ lofs
BS> one could mount a symlink on top of a symlink (don't make that funny
BS> face, please :-)) so then:
BS> /usr/bin/<cmd> -> ./arch/cmd
/usr/bin/arch ->> ../32
BS> or alternatively
/usr/bin/arch ->> ../64
BS> if I got that right pre-coffee :-).
BS> This would also let us handle libc.so.1 w symlinks rather than hiding
BS> binaries w/ lofs mounts.
That should work.
--
Best regards,
Robert
http://milek.blogspot.com
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