[gobolinux-devel] Re: Comments on Unmanaged and third party modules

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:56:54 +0200, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon at kymatica.com>  
wrote:

> Jonas Karlsson wrote:
>> 2006/8/1, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com>:
> ...
>>> > How about, if using UnionSandbox, mounting /System/Variable to
>>> > ${target}/Resources/Unmanaged/System/Variable?
>>>
>>> Listing the stuff you want to be in /S/V in the UnmanagedFiles file
>>> should get you the same result.
>>>
>> This was an idea since some programs want to install files into a /var
>> location. If I point it to R/Unmanaged (to have it create the files
>> correctly) the program might want to write to that directory while
>> running.
>> How would one configure a program so it writes to /S/Variable during
>> runtime, but the files get installed into R/Unmanaged?
>
> Isn't this exactly what unionfs can solve?
>
Yes, unionsandbox solves this, but should we count (demand) that everyone  
has unionfs available?

-- 
/Jonas

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