Hi, Still working on the future openfortivpn snap. openfortivpn forks, then execs pppd using 'execv("/path/to/pppd", …) . The path to the pppd executable must be defined at build-time and the Autoconf option --with-pppd= can be used to explicitly define that path. First I tried path /usr/sbin/pppd …

Note the difference: layout: /path/to/file.txt: bind-file: $SNAP/path/to/file.txt vs: layout: /path/to: bind: $SNAP/path/to There is a semantic difference between bind and bind-file. The reason you found that you could only do it with directories is because files need a bind-file dec…

Hardcoded path to exec() /usr/sbin/pppd

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ogra April 3, 2020, 10:30am 2

this is an acceptable hack … more elegant would be using a layout to map $SNAP/usr/sbin/pppd to /usr/sbin/pppd dynamically at runtime instead …

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