From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Feb 3 23:49:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02621 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:49:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from atdot.dotat.org (atdot.dotat.org [203.23.150.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA02607 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:49:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from newton@atdot.dotat.org) Received: (from newton@localhost) by atdot.dotat.org (8.9.2/8.7) id SAA00549; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:17:51 +1030 (CST) From: Mark Newton Message-Id: <199902040747.SAA00549@atdot.dotat.org> Subject: Re: Linux collections (was: Linux devel doesn't work with glibc To: alk@pobox.com Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:17:50 +1030 (CST) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <14009.18708.573160.241150@avalon.east> from "Tony Kimball" at Feb 4, 99 01:17:10 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tony Kimball wrote: > Quoth Mike Smith on Wed, 3 February: > : "linux space" > > Is there a document anywhere which details the defining > characteristics of "linux space" and its relationship to > the bigger world? "Linux space" is what you end up with when you overlay /compat/linux over / When an executable running under a FreeBSD emulator accesses a file, it tries "/compat/linux/pathname"; if that doesn't exist it'll try "pathname". - mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, newton@atdot.dotat.org but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1958-3414 ------------- Fax: +61-8-83034403 ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message