Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 15:45:41 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird behaviour from the Linux emulator Message-ID: <199705270615.PAA28391@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19970525193558.22470@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "May 25, 97 07:35:58 pm"
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Ollivier Robert stands accused of saying: > The Linux emulator has a weird idea of the filesystem, mixing the real one > with the one rooted at /compat/linux. To see this, open Acroread (or any > other Linux application), open "/" and then goes to "/usr". Watch now the > program displaying everything that's in "/compat/linux/usr" instead of the > real "/usr"... Yeah; there's not much that can be done about that though. > I understand the need to shadow the real filesystem but it should be done > only for the search for libraries/binaries, not for every open(2) call. Aha. And how do you think that libraries/binaries are searched for, if not by open(2)? Then how about configuration files, hmm? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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