unfortunately, getcwd() on union is broken... :-(

-p.

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:47:46PM -0400, Aaron Suen wrote:
> I'm having a problem compiling the kernel when the sources are mounted
> on a union filesystem.  It's enabled by default in GENERIC and I don't
> see any of the customary "not for production use" warnings, so either
> this is an uncommon bug or I've missed something obvious.  Or both :-)
> 
> I've checked out all the CVS source for OpenBSD 3.5-STABLE into dirs in
> /home/src, so src is in /home/src, ports is in /home/src/ports,
> etc.  Reading the manpage for mount_union, it states that one can grab
> a clean version of the OpenBSD sources, then just "mount -t union 
> -o -b..." to create a virtual copy somewhere else where another
> user can make changes which don't get applied to the clean copies.  I
> want clean sources in /home/src, but I want a working copy in /usr/src
> to do a make release.   But when I go to compile a kernel on my union
> mount, it fails.

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