PSARC/2008/376 - PowerTOP_for_OpenSolaris Self Review

[James Carlson]

Darren J Moffat writes:
> Randy Fishel wrote:
> >   That should also be the correct symlink.
> 
> The links to isaexec are delivered as hardlinks not symlinks (76 of them 
> on SPARC and 95 on x86).  I don't remember the reason why though.

The reason is because it doesn't work.

  # cd /usr/bin
  # cp echo amd64/foobar
  # ln -s /usr/lib/isaexec foobar
  # foobar hello
  foobar: cannot find/execute "isaexec" in ISA subdirectories
  # rm foobar
  # ln /usr/lib/isaexec foobar
  # foobar hello
  hello
  # 

A hard link is required.

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