From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 13 05:07:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA07129 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 05:07:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from indigo.ie (nsmart@ts01-28.waterford.indigo.ie [194.125.139.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07084 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:07:10 GMT (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) Received: (from nsmart@localhost) by indigo.ie (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA00754; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:38:28 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from rotel@ginseng.indigo.ie) From: Niall Smart Message-Id: <199804131138.MAA00754@indigo.ie> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:38:28 +0000 In-Reply-To: Johan Larsson "Re: Linux emulation problem" (Apr 13, 9:11am) Reply-To: rotel@indigo.ie X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: Johan Larsson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux emulation problem Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Apr 13, 9:11am, Johan Larsson wrote: > Niall Smart wrote: > > I just noticed that if you create /compat/linux/foo as a symlink > > to /etc then linux binaries get the contents of the "real" /etc, > > however I consider this to be broken and have send-pr'd it. > > Why? This seems to be the right thing to do. If you want to make a > symlink you either have to do one relative in the compat tree or > absolut to /usr/compat/linux.... Yes, that makes sense, I'll cancel that PR. Those semantics are weird, but probably the least weird given that you might wish to access /etc instead of /usr/compat/etc using a linux binary. Niall -- Niall Smart. Microsoft Suck. See www.freebsd.org for details. echo "#define if(x) if(!(x))" >> /usr/include/stdio.h To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message