Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 18:20:53 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> To: Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: user-config alt path in Linux emulation Message-ID: <3A7B6B05.D1C1A88@cup.hp.com> References: <20010131112104.B2268@webcom.it>
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Andrea Campi wrote: > > When running a Linux binary in Linux compat mode, all calls to open(), > readdir() and such, end up calling linux_emul_find() from linux_util.c. > This functions looks for a directory/file with the same name in the > /compat/linux hierarchy. > The net effect is that there is no way to, for instance, back up the > real /usr from Tivoli, etc... as there is no way to get to a real path > if there is anything with the same name inside /compat/linux. > > I'd like to understand if there is any accepted way to work around this > limitation (no, symlinks are not an option :-p), I'm sure not. /compat is already a symlink (to /usr/compat to be precise). What's with symlinks that it can't be an option? -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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