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Old 05-29-2012, 03:52 AM   #158
deep
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Originally Posted by geekmaster View Post
That is interesting. It looks like their linux kernel patch adds the "cygwin shell" method of interpreting vfat shortcuts (.lnk files) as symlinks.

The only downside that I can see is that you would need to load your patched kernel with kexec, to avoid interfering with already fragile kindle OTA updates.

It might be safer to add these patches to a shell instead of the kernel, like how cygwin does it. Then do your tcc compiles inside the patched shell.

But really, the USB drive is large enough that we can just use renamed file copies instead of symlinks, which is how I handled this kind of problem in the past. If your library needs three names, just use three copies of that library on your vfat drive. Then you do not need non-standard and potentially fragile vfat symlink support.
Yup ... I guess we could go back to the original problem of interpreting the vfat as a linux partition by KT and a linux partion as a vfat by the PC ...
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