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Add a note about the way absolute symlinks inside the emulated root are now 

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$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.160 2007/04/12 13:17:56 jmcneill Exp $
$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.161 2007/04/30 20:50:20 dsl Exp $
This file (UPDATING) is intended to be a brief reference to recent
changes that might cause problems in the build process, and a guide for
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Recent changes:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
20070422:
The way OS emulations lookup filenames inside the emulation root
has been changed. Rather than modify the pathname (and copy back
to userspace) namei() and lookup() directly check the emulation
root. One side effect is that absolute symlinks inside the emulated
root filesytem will be relative to that filesystem - unless they
start /../ this is useful when the emulated root is a real install
that has such links.
This might affect symlinks that have been added to reference outside
the emulated root.
20070412:
The pckbc driver on sgimips IP32 has been removed. Use macekbc
instead. See the GENERIC32_IP3x kernel configuration for an