[kbd] loadkeys does not open symlinks

[Charles Celerier]

Thank you for looking into this, but I just realized ln requires absolute
paths when creating symbolic links.

I feel so embarassed to have overlooked that! Apologies for wasting your
time.


On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 08:15, Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 05:40:24PM -0600, Charles Celerier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to symlink a custom keymap into the keymaps directory
> > (/lkbo/keymaps/ in mh case), but I noticed that the loadkeys utility
> > will not open symbolic link files. Is there a reason for this?
>
> $ l /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/foo-link.map
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 янв  9 14:11
> /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/foo-link.map -> foo.map
>
> $ strace -e trace=open,openat /bin/loadkeys foo-link 2>&1 |grep
> /lib/kbd/keymaps
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/kbd/keymaps",
> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 4
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386",
> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 5
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/fgGIod",
> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 6
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty",
> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 6
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/foo-link.map", O_RDONLY) = 7
>
> I can't reproduce.
>
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