From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Nov 10 13:39:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19658 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:39:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19651 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:39:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00756; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:38:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811102138.NAA00756@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Alfred Perlstein cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oddness with linux-emu and directory access In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:24:47 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:38:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > i'm noticing oddness when a linux emulated program tries to access files > > specifically: > Adobe acrobat reader seems to choke on bringing up it's file selection box > linux x11amp doesn't want to work properly > > it seems the apps are being forced into the /usr/compat/linux tree a bit > too agressivly? It's not "too aggressively"; it's a feature of the way that the directory substitution works. Graphical fileselectors are a little problematic, because they open the *directory*, so if the fileselector opens '/usr', it's going to get the linux-compat /usr, and there's not much you can do about that. Most of them let you type in a path, so you can "break out" of an area shadowed by the compatibility area. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message