Re: Linux emulation - chroot always?

[Ian Clark <mrrooster%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 25 February 2016 at 13:02, Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost> wrote:
> On February 24, 2016 6:11:36 PM EST, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> For linux emul, it's more like a leaky overlay than a chroot.  Processes running as linux emul will generally look in /emul/linux first, and if the desired file/directory isn't found there it'll try /.  There are other details, like whiteout entries, magic /../ escape prefixes, etc.. and I believe it's documented in a man page somewhere, but sorry, I don't remember off-hand which one.
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compat_linux(8) looks like the one....

Cheers,

Ian