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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Weird behaviour from the Linux emulator
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 14:41:35 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <19970525193558.22470@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at May 25, 97 07:35:58 pm
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> The Linux emulator has a weird idea of the filesystem, mixing the real one
> with the one rooted at /compat/linux. To see this, open Acroread (or any
> other Linux application), open "/" and then goes to "/usr". Watch now the
> program displaying everything that's in "/compat/linux/usr" instead of the
> real "/usr"...
> 
> I understand the need to shadow the real filesystem but it should be done
> only for the search for libraries/binaries, not for every open(2) call.

It also needs to be done for /etc/resolv.conf and for open for mmap()
of shared libraries (since we can't tell if the open is for a shared
library or not).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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