From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932361AbWDGTRg (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:17:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932431AbWDGTRg (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:17:36 -0400 Received: from mxsf03.cluster1.charter.net ([209.225.28.203]:17894 "EHLO mxsf03.cluster1.charter.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932361AbWDGTRf (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:17:35 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.04,98,1144036800"; d="scan'208"; a="178285809:sNHT599870838" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17462.47818.652096.604638@smtp.charter.net> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:17:30 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" To: "Joshua Hudson" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] Add a /proc/self/exedir link In-Reply-To: References: <5XGlt-GY-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <5XGOz-1eP-35@gated-at.bofh.it> <443515E1.1000600@plan99.net> <44356DAA.90209@plan99.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua Hudson 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. John