Re: $ORIGIN

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 03:35:55PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > >Am I missing something?
 > 
 > The problem is that we don't have a reliable name -> inode
 > mapping. It mostly does not have to do with performance.

No, it isn't; you can get one by seeding the input to namei with
getcwd. The problem is that we didn't want to do that on every exec
and (if done on every exec) that it would cause problems in cases
where getcwd fails.

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David A. Holland
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