Re: Alive?

[Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>]

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> I envisage a /compat/debian tree, which would be like / to linux.
> Ie /compat/debian/usr/bin, /compat/debian/usr/share/doc etc.

I played a little with FreeBSD yesterday (can't do that at work), read
a litle documentation and compiled a kernel with ext2 support.


> (or /compat/linux). I don't know if it does, though -- /compat/linux might
> be intended only for system libraries (libc, libm, etc) and not for
> binaries.

As I understood it /compat/linux could be used like the / of a linux
box. If a linux program requests a file it will get
/compat/linux/foobar or /foobar in that order. I thinks the
documentation stated that this was the behavior since FreeBSD 2.2.

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