From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 26 23:16:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA28759 for current-outgoing; Mon, 26 May 1997 23:16:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA28753 for ; Mon, 26 May 1997 23:16:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id PAA28391; Tue, 27 May 1997 15:45:42 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705270615.PAA28391@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Weird behaviour from the Linux emulator In-Reply-To: <19970525193558.22470@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "May 25, 97 07:35:58 pm" To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 15:45:41 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[