Subject: Multiple linux /emul environments
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/19/1999 13:15:15
We are running the linux ADSM (big IBM backup system) client on
NetBSD/i386 boxes here. It is statically linked, and also
interacts rather badly with /emul/linux. If a directory exists
in /emul/linux it will backup the contents of that directory
rather than the real filesystem.
What we need is some way to tell the kernel that certain linux
binaries do not use /emul/linux.
Trying to generalise this, would it make sense to allow binaries
to be tagged (possibly via an elf note) to run with different
/emul/XXXX paths? Maybe based on the Vendor-specific ELF note
docs as at www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/elf-notes.html
David/absolute
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