Joshua,

Completely coincidentally, you just answered a question I pondered in passing 
over the last 24 hours (i.e. how system calls are exposed to each process).

So, thank you!

> On Dec 7, 2015, at 19:24, Joshua M. Clulow <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 7 December 2015 at 14:10, David Preece <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Clearly /native links to native versions of various utilities etc. but is it 
>> vital to the operation of an lx vm? Why?
> 
> Amongst other things, the emulation of Linux system calls is arranged,
> in part, by a shared library that we inject into each Linux process as
> it starts.  This comes out of /native, and is not optional.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> --
> Joshua M. Clulow
> UNIX Admin/Developer
> http://blog.sysmgr.org
> 


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