On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Will Donnelly<will.donne...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dyre doesn't use 'readSymbolicLink' directly, so if this issue is
> coming from those parts of the code, I would hazard a guess that it's
> an issue with the executable-path library[1].

This seems to be exactly right. The execute-file functions for BSD [1]
use /proc/ specifically, which isn't mounted by default on FreeBSD
(and all other BSDs, afaik). Apparently BSD's alternative is sysctl.

Balazs: the full thread is available on Google Groups [2].

Jeff Wheeler

[1] 
http://code.haskell.org/~bkomuves/projects/executable-path/System/Environment/Executable/BSD.hs
[2] http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel/browse_thread/thread/8eff73f0f95bce8

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