On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> some time ago it's been proposed to let uml_net live in /usr/lib/uml to
> comply the FHS (I have version 2.3 at hand):
>
> /usr/lib includes object files, libraries, and internal binaries that
> are not intended to be executed directly by users or shell scripts.
>
> see chapter 4.7.1
> The attached patch implements it and keeps backward compatibility.
> It's kind of brutal because putenv will wipe any user-defined PATH, if
> this is a problem I can provide an improved patch that appends
> /usr/lib/uml to the existing PATH. Is this the way to go?
>
> Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/helper.c 2006-04-02 16:32:38.340801686 +0200
> +++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/helper.c 2006-04-02 16:34:13.454745936 +0200
> @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ struct helper_data {
> int fd;
> };
>
> +/* PATH variable to find uml helpers installed in FHS compliant locations */
> +static char *alt_path = "PATH=:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/uml";
^
Woops, this puts the current directory first in your path, which is probably
not what you want (Never bitten by people leaving evil `ls' variants in /tmp?).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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