Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:01:03 +0200 From: Markus Holmberg <markush@acc.umu.se> To: Norbert Papke <npapke@acm.org> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Baffled: Linux JDK 1.3.0 Port Message-ID: <20010510190103.A27758@acc.umu.se> In-Reply-To: <20010510094708.Y23199-100000@localhost.telus.net>; from npapke@acm.org on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:51:46AM -0700 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105101013340.4286-100000@mimer.webgiro.com> <20010510094708.Y23199-100000@localhost.telus.net>
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As a follow up to my mail about /usr/tmp, closer inspection reveals that /compat/linux/usr/tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp which explains the behaviour.. Guess nothing is wrong with the emulation or JDK. Not sure why there is a link from /compat/linux/usr/tmp to /var/tmp though. Markus On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:51:46AM -0700, Norbert Papke wrote: > BINGO!!! > > I had a symlink in /compat/linux/usr to /usr/home. (I remember needing it > quite some time ago to make some Linux executables find my home > directory.) Anyway, I deleted the symlink and now it works. > > Thanks to everybody for your help. > > -- Norbert Papke. > npapke@acm.org > > On Thu, 10 May 2001, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > I don't experience either, but I'd like to just draw your attention to > > certain behaviour of the emulation layer, which might cause the confusion. > > > > Namely, the Linux process using the emulation layer (e.g. the shell that > > .javawraper uses), when looking for a file or directory, it first > > traverses the hierarchy with root in /compat/linux/, and if it finds the > > matching filename there, it just looks no longer in the real / . So, if > > you accidentally have the filename that matches the one you look for, > > located in /compat/linux/, it will be picked up instead. > > > > -- > > > > Andrzej > > > > // ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > // Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, Chief System Architect > > // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) > > // ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > // <abial@freebsd.org> FreeBSD developer (http://www.freebsd.org) > > > > -- Markus Holmberg | Give me Unix or give me a typewriter. markush@acc.umu.se | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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