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- From: Asokan <nasokan@maytag.uwaterloo.ca>
- Subject: /usr/kvm/machine on 4.1.2 machines
- Message-ID: <92Jul27.174854edt.87795@maytag.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: root@math.uwaterloo.ca (0000-Admin(0000))
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:48:38 GMT
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- In 4.1.1, /usr/kvm/machine did not point into ./sys (which
- will not exist unless the optional "Sys" software subset is
- installed). Instead it referred to ../include/<kernel-arch> like so:
- lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 16 Feb 25 14:24 machine -> ../include/sun4c
- lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 15 Apr 23 1991 machine -> ../include/sun3
-
- On our 4.1.2/Sun4m machines, /usr/include/sun4m exists and has several
- identical header files as /usr/kvm/sys/sun4m, where the latter exists.
- But /usr/kvm/machine is thus:
- lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 11 Jan 10 1992 machine -> ./sys/sun4m
-
- which is a dangling symlink where /usr/kvm/sys doesn't exist.
-
- Is this how Sun delivers 4.1.2? Why was this changed?
- Is there any harm in changing /usr/kvm/machine to point
- to ../include/sun4m instead (at least on those systems
- that do not have the "Sys" software subset loaded?
-
- Much thanks.
-
- - Asokan
-