On 06/12/2016 20:55, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 18:49:06 +0200 Andriy Gapon <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have an old binary-only Linux program that, for whatever reason, opens >> /dev/null with O_CREAT flag (O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC). That works fine >> when there is no /compat/linux/dev: the code in kern_alternate_path() sees >> that >> the directory does not exist, strips /compat/linux prefix and, so, the real >> /dev/null is found. But typically, if linux_base is installed, there is >> /compat/linux/dev directory, because of /compat/linux/dev/shm/. The code >> will >> see the directory and, thus, it will try to open /compat/linux/dev/null. But >> there is no such file, so it will try to create it. And fail with EPERM for >> a >> non-privileged user. >> >> I wonder if anyone has thoughts or suggestions on this situation. >> Either an administrative solution or a code change would be fine for me. >> Thanks! > > Try creating this symlink: > > ln -s /dev/null /compat/linux/dev/null >
That does the job, thank you! -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
