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Subject: Re: Hobbyware WinCrap 11 strikes again
Date: 14 Feb 2025 21:43:32 GMT
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On 14 Feb 2025 20:45:17 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
<m19oatFb494U2@mid.individual.net>:

> On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:43:07 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
> 
>>  But the Snap version
>> of Firefox can't read anything in the /usr subdirectoryy (actually I
>> don't think it can read *any* file in the root directory). So Snap
>> forces you to try to work around it's non-standard BS, making a .deb
>> installation package fail that works with any other Firefox
>> installation. (This is just one example.)
> 
> I can access files in the /usr directory but it's a little odd. For 
> example with <Ctrl>O I can navigate to 
> 
> /usr/share/arduino/examples/01.Basics/Blink/Blink.ino
> 
> After I select the file it opens and the URL bar becomes
> 
> file:///run/user/1000/doc/e6a3bfe2/Blink.ino
> 
> I can also  
> 
> cat /run/user/1000/doc/e6a3bfe2/Blink.ino
> 
> to see the contents of the usual Arduino 'hello world' example. 
> 
> There is also /run/user/1000/doc/by-app/ which appears to have running 
> apps. For example, thonny wasn't in the list until I started it and then 
> snap.thonny appeared. 
> 
> The entry doesn't go away when I exit thonny, nor does Blink.io when I 
> close the Firefox tab. 
> 
> /run is relatively new. I've never poked around so I don't know if unused 
> data expires at some time.

/run is actually a tmpfs mount, so it goes away on reboot.

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