[Toybox] Fwd: [PATCH v1] Fix broken test due to directory symlink

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Nov 9 06:23:55 PST 2022


On 11/8/22 15:52, enh via Toybox wrote:
> sorry, didn't notice yesterday that this patch hadn't cc:ed the
> mailing list... correcting that now...
> 
> (if you're wondering _why_ this is the way it is, it's because that
> symlink lets us paper over the question of "which exact partition is
> this on?", and that question is very important in Android-land because
> different groups "own" different partitions, so where the symlink
> points decides who owns the modules...)

I hit the exact same problem with /lib being a symlink to /usr/lib in mkroot
last week. :)

Rob


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