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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:27:17 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: linux emulation: "/ " resolves to real root dir; why ?
Message-ID:  <4178EE95.6080708@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20041022131342.W95775@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
References:  <4178DBA0.8050605@icyb.net.ua> <20041022131342.W95775@gwdu60.gwdg.de>

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on 22.10.2004 14:18 Konrad Heuer said the following:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Andriy Gapon 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.
> 

we are taking about different "break outs". Removing the check will
*not* affect accessing any other filesystem node but "/". Only things like
	cd /
	ls /
or
	"cd .." from /compat/linux/foo
will be affected.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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