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Date:      Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:19:22 +0100
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: VMware and CDROM was (Re: Linux ioctl not implemented error)
Message-ID:  <384D5DBA.72CC3B62@scc.nl>
References:  <19991204210435.D881@jupiter.delta.ny.us>, <384D5090.6F70CAD@freenet.co.uk>

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Alex wrote:
> 
> located in /usr/local/vmware.   Linux applications look for /usr in
> /usr/compat/linux/usr, and I had a symlink from
> /usr/compat/linux/usr/local to /usr/local, because I needed to be able
> to access /usr/local from Linux apps.
[snip]
> This is something for Marcel to think about (there was also another
> message about symlinks outside /compat/linux).

That was false alarm. As for any symlink from /compat/linux/<somedir> to
/<somedir>: DON'T EVER DO THAT :-)

This is what happens if you do:
stat /<somedir>
=> NAMEI /compat/linux/<somedir> -> /<somedir>
=> NAMEI /compat/linux/<somedir> -> /<somedir>
=> NAMEI /compat/linux/<somedir> -> /<somedir>
=> NAMEI /compat/linux/<somedir> -> /<somedir>
=> NAMEI /compat/linux/<somedir> -> /<somedir>
=> NAMEI /compat/linux/<somedir> -> /<somedir>
=> NAMEI /compat/linux/<somedir> -> /<somedir>
=> NAMEI /compat/linux/<somedir> -> /<somedir>
=> NAMEI /compat/linux/<somedir> -> /<somedir>

(you get my drift)

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar                        mailto:marcel@scc.nl
SCC Internetworking & Databases           http://www.scc.nl/
The FreeBSD project                mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org


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