On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 08:37:52PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> However this raises the question of what to do when you have an emulated
> binary that execs a conflicting program *and* depends on the behaviour
> of the emulated OS' version of the program.
> 
> Is this beyond even the theoretical limits of the /emul system, or might
> it be possible to make the exec() wrapper slightly smarter so that it
> first tries prefixing the path with "/emul/$os/" first?

You know that most of the calls do that already right?

  4234 typhoond CALL  readlink(0x10108aea,0xf7bfda40,0x3f)
  4234 typhoond NAMI  "/emul/freebsd/etc/malloc.conf"
  4234 typhoond NAMI  "/etc/malloc.conf"

Is exec() the exception?

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