Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:17:30 -0400 | From | "John Stoffel" <> | Subject | Re: Fwd: [PATCH] Add a /proc/self/exedir link |
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>>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua Hudson <joshudson@gmail.com> writes:
Joshua> Excellent point. This proposal needs to die, but there needs Joshua> to be some way to solve this problem.
Why don't you try to explain the problem in more depth, but without assuming a solution at all. Just talk about what you're trying to fix.
As a SysAdmin by trade, if the program is written sanely, it's not hard to make it relocateable and runable from anywhere. It's when the program *knows* or the libraries is uses *know* that stuff is in certain locations that things break.
I'm really writing from memory here, since I first saw your proposal and looked it over and went "why bother?" but didn't have the time to check it out in detail.
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