[BusyBox] Re: [BusyBox-cvs] cvs commit to busybox by kraai

[Tom Cameron]

Erik,
	I think that following sym-links is the lesser of two evils here.  I
know that in my target system, I completely remove that sym-link, because I
don't have the source on it.  I would imagine that there are more people
with my situation...but I could be completely wrong.

--
Thomas Cameron
Network Technician / Operations Specialist
St. Mary's Bank

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Erik Andersen [SMTP:andersen at lineo.com]
> Sent:	Monday, May 14, 2001 2:34 PM
> To:	busybox at busybox.net
> Subject:	[BusyBox] Re: [BusyBox-cvs] cvs commit to busybox by kraai
> 
> On Mon May 14, 2001 at 12:27:26PM -0600, kraai at busybox.net wrote:
> > Repository: busybox
> > who:        kraai
> > time:       Mon May 14 12:27:25 MDT 2001
> > 
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > 
> > Follow symbolic links when searching for modules.
> > 
> > 
> > Files:
> > 
> > changed:    insmod.c
> 
> Why?  That seems unwise.  Case in point, my current 2.4.4 kernel's
> modules, as
> installed by 'make modules_install' has a 'build' symlink pointing to the
> kernel source.  So now before it ever gets around to looking under
> /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel it will have wandered through the entire kernel
> source tree...
> 
> [andersen at sage andersen]$ ll /lib/modules/2.4.4
> total 48
> drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 May  1 23:35 ./
> drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         4096 May  1 23:25 ../
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 May  1 23:25 build ->
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.4/
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 May  1 23:25 kernel/
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         6596 May 12 11:40 modules.dep
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root           31 May 12 11:40
> modules.generic_string
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root           81 May 12 11:40 modules.isapnpmap
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root           29 May 12 11:40 modules.parportmap
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          883 May 12 11:40 modules.pcimap
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          189 May 12 11:40 modules.usbmap
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 May  1 23:35 net/
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 May  1 23:35 pcmcia/
> 
> 
>  -Erik
> 
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