Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:51:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Norbert Papke <npapke@acm.org> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: Markus Holmberg <markush@acc.umu.se>, <java@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Baffled: Linux JDK 1.3.0 Port Message-ID: <20010510094708.Y23199-100000@localhost.telus.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105101013340.4286-100000@mimer.webgiro.com>
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BINGO!!! I had a symlink in /compat/linux/usr to /usr/home. (I remember needing it quite some time ago to make some Linux executables find my home directory.) Anyway, I deleted the symlink and now it works. Thanks to everybody for your help. -- Norbert Papke. npapke@acm.org On Thu, 10 May 2001, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Folks, > > I don't experience either, but I'd like to just draw your attention to > certain behaviour of the emulation layer, which might cause the confusion. > > Namely, the Linux process using the emulation layer (e.g. the shell that > .javawraper uses), when looking for a file or directory, it first > traverses the hierarchy with root in /compat/linux/, and if it finds the > matching filename there, it just looks no longer in the real / . So, if > you accidentally have the filename that matches the one you look for, > located in /compat/linux/, it will be picked up instead. > > -- > > Andrzej > > // ---------------------------------------------------------------- > // Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, Chief System Architect > // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) > // ---------------------------------------------------------------- > // <abial@freebsd.org> FreeBSD developer (http://www.freebsd.org) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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