pathmap semantics issues

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Nov 22 08:58:00 GMT 2000


On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:53:38AM -0500, David Taylor wrote:
>Okay, here's some questions concerning how pathmap should behave:
>
>. should it translate all paths?  Or just some paths?  If some, which?
>Source paths?  Others?  That is, should it be consulted when looking
>for sources?, objects?, executables?, and shared objects?
>
>. should it be searched instead of the existing path?  Or in addition?
>If in addition, which should be searched first?
>
>Do people care?

I would think that it should be "all paths".  If you've gone to the
effort of issuing the pathmap command then it must be for the reason
that you don't have the specific path on your system and need to
translate it.  So, using the pathmap translation for everything would
make sense, IMO.

cgf


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