Accessing system tools from an application

[Alexander Larsson]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 7:23 AM Grzegorz Antoniak <ga at anadoxin.org> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I've installed Flatpak'd version of Visual Studio Code. One of its extensions wants to use the system Java installation, installed in `/usr/lib/jvm`.
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> Is it possible to "forward" the `/usr` directory to the flatpak's sandboxed application?
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> I can see that I can use `--env` to forward environment variables and that works OK. I've also tried to use `--filesystem=/usr:ro` but I haven't noticed this changing the situation.
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> Do Flatpak supports i.e. sharing host `/usr` as a sandboxed directory i.e. `/host_usr` (that would be enough for me I think)?

If you have --filesystem=host access, then the root /usr is in /run/host/usr.

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