linux emulation: "/ " resolves to real root dir; why ?
Andriy Gapon
avg at icyb.net.ua
Fri Oct 22 04:27:30 PDT 2004
on 22.10.2004 14:18 Konrad Heuer said the following:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>
> Linux binaries often need to access files outside the emulation directory
> tree, just think of data files in the user's homes when running
> applications like acroread, linux-mozilla, staroffice etc. So you
> absolutely need to break out.
>
we are taking about different "break outs". Removing the check will
*not* affect accessing any other filesystem node but "/". Only things like
cd /
ls /
or
"cd .." from /compat/linux/foo
will be affected.
--
Andriy Gapon
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