From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 22 11:22:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B89A16A4CE for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:22:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk (mail.devrandom.org.uk [84.92.10.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6C243D31 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:22:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from localhost (frodo [192.168.1.8]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3CB256052 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:22:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk ([192.168.1.8]) by localhost (frodo.devrandom.org.uk [192.168.1.8]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54970-03 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:22:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.1.176] (unknown [192.168.1.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 953B6256370 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:22:24 +0100 (BST) From: Chris Howells Organization: K Desktop Environment To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:22:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <4178DBA0.8050605@icyb.net.ua> <20041022131342.W95775@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <20041022131342.W95775@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3086189.b1KO24QXvC"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410221222.28097.howells@kde.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at devrandom.org.uk Subject: Re: linux emulation: "/ " resolves to real root dir; why ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:22:34 -0000 --nextPart3086189.b1KO24QXvC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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.... =2D-=20 Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org --nextPart3086189.b1KO24QXvC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBeO10F8Iu1zN5WiwRAjkDAJ9RTNpte/1KslfBsmA3fbziO7DvwgCeIMyw cHx3os8tau5MW1NCO9zelYg= =Bnu0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3086189.b1KO24QXvC--