Hello Michael, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 7:26 AM Michael van Elst <mlel...@serpens.de> wrote: > > riza.din...@gmail.com (Riza Dindir) writes: > > >already an entry for the procfs as such > >procfs /proc procfs rw > >But in the manual page for compat_linux it says that I need to do this > >procfs /emul/linux/procfs procfs ro,linux > >It does make it readonly I believe and also changes the path to the > >/proc directory. Would that be a problem? > > You would need to mount it twice. Then emulated programs will use > /emul/linux/procfs and non-emulated programs will use /procfs. > > However, since some time the 'linux' mount option is the default, > so on newer NetBSD this isn't necessary at all. > > > >Another question would be this. When I get information on the > >suse_base package (pkg_info suse_base) It says that I should change > >the tmpfs entry in the /etc/fstab from > >tmpfs /var/sh tmpfs rw,-m1777,-sram%25 > >to this > >tmpfs /emul/linux//var/sh tmpfs rw,-m1777 > >Would I need to change this, and would it cause any problems? > > That's /var/shm, not /var/sh. Previously NetBSD wouldn't use /var/shm > for itself, so you needed to create something for emulated programs. > But with recent NetBSD it should just work with /var/shm for emulated > programs too and you don't need the /emul/linux/var/shm mount. > > > >Would it be better to leave the fstab intact, not changing it and > >running linux applications? > > In any case, it is necessary to not replace the native entries. > You may add the /emul/linux entries, but it is not necessary > nowadays. > > procfs went linux-compatible with netbsd-6. > /var/shm is used since netbsd-7.
Since I am using NetBSD9.2, this is not necessary I think. > Thanks, Riza
