Subject: Re: kern/6062: bind() to unix domain socket doesn't use emul path
To: matthew green , Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/31/1998 12:07:44
Excerpts from netbsd: 30-Aug-98 Re: kern/6062: bind() to un.. Jason
Thorpe@nas.nasa.go (949)

> What if it wants to create a temp file
> in /usr/adm/fooprog/...?  You want to put a /usr/adm on your NetBSD
> system?  Not.

I want to share an /emul/linux between all boxes, mounted
read-only. So creation in the /emul part is not the right thing
either.

> The Correct thing happens if the emul shadow dir doesn't exist for the
> created file (i.e. it falls back on the real /-rooted path).

But if it does exist but is not writable, it fails instead of
falling back... (probably easy to fix)

best regards
Matthias