Re: Hobbyware WinCrap 11 strikes again

On 14 Feb 2025 20:45:17 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
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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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