From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Jan 9 17:50:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from blount.mail.mindspring.net (blount.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359DA37B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:50:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from jupiter.delta.ny.us (nyf-ny6-02.ix.netcom.com [198.211.17.66]) by blount.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA26115; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 20:50:30 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vsilyaev@localhost) by jupiter.delta.ny.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA00424; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 20:50:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from vns) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 20:50:23 -0500 (EST) From: "Vladimir N.Silyaev" Message-Id: <200101100150.UAA00424@jupiter.delta.ny.us> To: dhw@whistle.com Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone get "runsocks" to work for programs in Linux emulation mode? In-Reply-To: <200101092156.f09LuZ696960@pau-amma.whistle.com> References: <200101092156.f09LuZ696960@pau-amma.whistle.com> Reply-To: vns@delta.odessa.ua Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In muc.lists.freebsd.emulation, you wrote: >The "runsocks" script basically works by placing certain libraries earlier >in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so that calls to certain (dynamically loaded) >functions get the "socksified" versions of the functions instead of the >usual flavor. I believe that runsocks uses just LD_PRELOAD, and don't touch LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > >Linux emulation does its own curious things with the program's perception >of the universe. I believe that linux emulation don't change any behaviour of linux [/compat/linux]/lib/ld.so [skipped] >application. So I wanted to try the Linux version of netscape.... IMHO you have to use linux version of runsocks (really linux version of shared library) if you like to 'socksify' linux version of netscape. -- Regards, Vladimir To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message