Re: [PATCH 2/2] use lpath_to_handle when restoring symlinks

[Bill Kendall <wkendall@xxxxxxx>]

On 10/25/2009 02:05 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:52:32AM -0500, Bill Kendall wrote:
> > Update xfsrestore to use the new lpath_to_handle function
> > when dealing with symlinks.
> Requiring a simultanously released version of xfsprogs is a very bad
> idea.  The right fix is to add an autoconf check for the new function
> and use it when available, falling back to the inferior old version
> if it is not available.
Good thought. However, there's also a run-time dependency since
xfsrestore uses libhandle.so rather than the .a. I can rework something
using dlsym - sound okay?

Bill