diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml index 139365e625..077e1c777e 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu/chapter.xml @@ -1196,9 +1196,11 @@ export PATH &linux; mode dynamically reroots lookups. This is, in effect, equivalent to the option to file system mounts. First, - an attempt is made to lookup the file in /compat/linux/original-path. + an attempt is made to lookup the file in /compat/linux/original-path. If that fails, the lookup is done in - /original-path. + /original-path. This makes sure that binaries that require other binaries can run. For example, the &linux; toolchain can all run under &linux; ABI support. It also means that