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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:22:16 +0100
From:      Chris Howells <howells@kde.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: linux emulation: "/ " resolves to real root dir; why ?
Message-ID:  <200410221222.28097.howells@kde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041022131342.W95775@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
References:  <4178DBA0.8050605@icyb.net.ua> <20041022131342.W95775@gwdu60.gwdg.de>

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On Friday 22 October 2004 12:18, Konrad Heuer wrote:
> Linux binaries often need to access files outside the emulation directory
> tree, just think of data files in the user's homes when running
> applications like acroread, linux-mozilla, staroffice etc. So you
> absolutely need to break out.

Yes. For example, on amd64, currently the only way to run openoffice is by=
=20
running the linux32 version through the compat layer. And it is nice to ope=
n=20
and save the documents in my home directory....

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
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