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.../bin/expr was. When I found it was a symlink to /bin/busybox, I started looking for Alpine Linux specific tweaks that could replace busybox (in this role) with a real binary executable "expr" utility. I was relieved to find the following wiki article: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/How_to_get_regular_stuff_working which promised -- I thought anyways -- a real coreutils package. Imagine my dismay when I found that, after installing coreutils with apk in the Alpine Linux VM, the symlink stayed in place, only its target binary changed from "/bin/busybox" to "coreutils". Well done, Alpine L...

...was a symlink to /bin/busybox, I started looking for Alpine Linux > specific tweaks that could replace busybox (in this role) with a real > binary executable "expr" utility. > > I was relieved to find the following wiki article: > > https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/How_to_get_regular_stuff_working > > which promised -- I thought anyways -- a real coreutils package. > > Imagine my dismay when I found that, after installing coreutils with apk > in the Alpine Linux VM, the symlink stayed in place, only its target > binary changed from "/bin/busybox" to "coreut...

...was a symlink to /bin/busybox, I started looking for Alpine Linux > specific tweaks that could replace busybox (in this role) with a real > binary executable "expr" utility. > > I was relieved to find the following wiki article: > > https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/How_to_get_regular_stuff_working > > which promised -- I thought anyways -- a real coreutils package. > > Imagine my dismay when I found that, after installing coreutils with apk > in the Alpine Linux VM, the symlink stayed in place, only its target > binary changed from "/bin/busybox" to "coreut...

.../busybox, I started looking for Alpine Linux >> specific tweaks that could replace busybox (in this role) with a real >> binary executable "expr" utility. >> >> I was relieved to find the following wiki article: >> >> https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/How_to_get_regular_stuff_working >> >> which promised -- I thought anyways -- a real coreutils package. >> >> Imagine my dismay when I found that, after installing coreutils with apk >> in the Alpine Linux VM, the symlink stayed in place, only its target >> binary changed from "/bin/busybox...

On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 07:04:59AM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 3/20/23 20:41, Eric Blake wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 10:41:37AM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> This is version 4 of the following sub-series: > >> > >> [libnbd PATCH v3 09/29] lib/utils: introduce async-signal-safe execvpe() > >> [libnbd PATCH v3 10/29] lib/utils: add unit tests