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Re: Is --enable-single-binary=symlinks a problem for a distribution?


From: Bernhard Voelker
Subject: Re: Is --enable-single-binary=symlinks a problem for a distribution?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 22:37:03 +0200
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On 2020-08-27 13:31, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 27/08/2020 09:18, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> AFAIR the shebang variant is for file system types which do not fully
>> support symlinks, right?
> 
> It was also to support multiple levels of symlinks.
> For example to stub out commands like: ln -nsf false /bin/install
> If using symlinks 'install' would remain in argv[0] and thus be invoked.

Interesting use case.  Thanks for reminding.

Have a nice day,
Berny



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