[Toaster] question and possible bugs about Target_File

[Damian, Alexandru]

Ok, I'm looking into it.

Alex


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Lerner, Dave <dave.lerner at windriver.com>wrote:

> Hi Alex
> I've noticed some possible anomalies in the adamian/fixes_06032014
> construction of Target_File:
>
> 1) you have files of inode type 1 ITYPE_REGULAR but with sym_target
> non-empty implying a symbolic link.  That makes some sense if you plan on
> exposing the 'type' of the linked to file, so that for example, a directory
> inode linked to another directory is of type directory, which makes my life
> easier since I don't have to follow links to find if the underlying type is
> a directory, which changes logic in the view.  For symlinks resolving to
> directories, the non-empty sym_target implies the link type, and leaving
> inodetype=directory helps.
>
> 2) none of the entries in /dev/ have inode type character or block. There
> are only file and directory inodetypes 1 and 2 in orm_target_file after 3
> builds of minimal and sato.
>
> 3) the build created entries orm_target_File entries for paths
> "/usr/bin/[" and "/usr/bin/[[" .
>
> -dave
>



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Alex Damian
Yocto Project
SSG / OTC
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