From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35554) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbGPL-0008Hu-Fm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:37:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbGPH-0004wU-2v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:37:47 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f176.google.com ([209.85.223.176]:36130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbGPG-0004vx-VB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:37:43 -0400 Received: by iedm5 with SMTP id m5so58408766ied.3 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:37:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150326213722.8046.66496.malone@soybean.canonical.com> References: <20131028231528.17025.5795.malonedeb@chaenomeles.canonical.com> <20150326213722.8046.66496.malone@soybean.canonical.com> From: Peter Maydell Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 22:37:21 +0000 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1245703] Re: LD_PREFIX option reads directories recursively in an endless loop List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Bug 1245703 <1245703@bugs.launchpad.net> Cc: QEMU Developers On 26 March 2015 at 21:37, Ross Burton wrote: > We're (Yocto Project) hit this often. We're building a root file system > and then using userspace qemu to run binaries inside it (such as fc- > cache). If a cyclic symlink appears in the rootfs, it blows up. If you're actually building a rootfs then you're probably better off using binfmt-misc and chrooting into it rather than using -L. -L really isn't intended to point at a full rootfs. -- PMM