From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:25:34 +0100 > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:18:15AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > > FWIW, two things I _really_ want dead and gone are > > * timod (or full rewrite of that animal; current one is badly racy > > and plays fast and loose with way too many place in VFS guts) > > * altroot (use chroot, damnit, and bind whatever you need in there) > > BTW, the part about altroot goes for other architectures too; it's badly > broken and it's one hell of an obstacle to fs/namei.c work of any kind. > > As absolute minimum we _must_ lose the "if we hadn't found what we wanted > in that subtree, repeat lookup starting at real root"; that's causing > nightmares in pathname resolution and there's no excuse whatsoever for > that since we have bindings. The only platforms defining a non-NOP __emul_prefix() after this sparc changeset are: 1) IA-64 for PER_LINUX32 --> /emul/ia32-linux/ 2) MIPS for riscos and IRIX compat support 3) ARM for ARM_BSD_EMUL --> "usr/gnemul/bsd", yikes no leading slash in that path! I bet if we really tried we could get rid of these things. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
