That didn't work for me with Java...if I started the path with "/../",
Java would throw an IOException.  And my problem was if a directory
didn't exist (say /home/userName), I needed to create it.  I couldn't
find a way to NOT make it appear under the /emul/linux path.  I would
love to be able to though...

Cheers
Sam


Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> In article <20020522101906.A27580@idoru.mine.nu>,
> Rasputin <rasputin@idoru.mine.nu> wrote:
> >* Tracy Nelson <tnelson158@attbi.com> [020521 17:19]:
> >> Hi!  I was working on getting NetBeans set up last night, when I ran across
> >> some strange behavior.  When attempting to register a file with the file
> >> browser, I was getting very strange results.  To make a long story short,
> >> what was happening was, I was browsing in the Linux compatability tree,
> >> which is set up with its own root hierarchy (i.e., I thought I was browsing
> >> /usr/local, when I was really browsing /emul/linux/usr/local).
> >
> >According to compat_linux, that's how it should work. The same manpage also
> >says that if you ask for a file /path/to/file, the emulation first
> >tried to open /emul/linux/path/to/file, then falls back to /path/to/file,
> >so symlinks shouldn't be needed.
> >
> >Or that's my understanding of:
> >
> >" This directory is named /emul/linux. Any file operations done by Linux
> >programs run under NetBSD will look in this directory first. So, if a Linux
> >program opens, for example, /etc/passwd, NetBSD will first try to open
> >/emul/linux/etc/passwd, and if that does not exist open the 'real'
> >/etc/passwd file."
> 
> Unless the path starts with "/../". Then it will skip the /emul/linux
> lookup.
> 
> christos