<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you for looking into this, but I just realized ln requires absolute paths when creating symbolic links.</div><div><br></div><div>I feel so embarassed to have overlooked that! Apologies for wasting your time.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 08:15, Alexey Gladkov <<a href="mailto:gladkov.alexey@gmail.com">gladkov.alexey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 05:40:24PM -0600, Charles Celerier wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> <br>
> I would like to symlink a custom keymap into the keymaps directory<br>
> (/lkbo/keymaps/ in mh case), but I noticed that the loadkeys utility<br>
> will not open symbolic link files. Is there a reason for this?<br>
<br>
$ l /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/foo-link.map<br>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 янв 9 14:11 /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/foo-link.map -> foo.map<br>
<br>
$ strace -e trace=open,openat /bin/loadkeys foo-link 2>&1 |grep /lib/kbd/keymaps<br>
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/kbd/keymaps", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 4<br>
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 5<br>
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/fgGIod", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 6<br>
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 6<br>
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/foo-link.map", O_RDONLY) = 7<br>
<br>
I can't reproduce.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Rgrds, legion<br>
<br>
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