how does linux emulation work?

[Kirk Strauser]

At 2004-03-12T03:54:03Z, "Aaron Peterson" <aaron at alpete.com> writes:

> it runs chrooted to /compat/linux/ so it uses the linux libraries, and
> that's that.

No.  The binaries are not chrooted.  Other than that, you're mostly correct.

> is there more too it than that?  is there any reason i cant copy my distro
> of choice from a fresh installation into /compat/linux/, load linux.ko and
> be on my way with it?

For the most part, no, there's not.  Be aware that many of your distro's
scripts expect to find certain answers from uname, for example, and may not
be happy with FreeBSD's emulated answers.
-- 
Kirk Strauser

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