Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 14:41:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird behaviour from the Linux emulator Message-ID: <199705252141.OAA12558@phaeton.artisoft.com> 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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