In article <199503060254.NAA02861@splode.mame.mu.OZ.AU> mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green) writes:
>
>the problem is that you've only got 8 characters to work with:
>changing `/usr/lib' to `/emul/sunos' would extend the string 3
>characters and break the program.  though this is a good idea,
>i'm not entirely sure how to do it properly.


It does not work this way. Basically all the syscalls that need to call
namei(), they first check:

if the file starts with a / and does not resolve to root and there is a file
by that name in /emul/xxx/pathname, then that file is opened.

christos