Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:31:40 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-7@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r183819 - in stable/7/sys: . compat/linprocfs fs/procfs Message-ID: <20081013133140.GQ7782@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <86skr0zlav.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <200810131300.m9DD0MaR076808@svn.freebsd.org> <20081013131047.GA84887@freebsd.org> <86skr0zlav.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:17:28PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > what about commiting this to note this change? > > > > + <para>A serious problem emulating /proc for Linux was fixed. Many Linux > > + ports are now working including the linux-flashplugin9 port.</para> > > "A serious problem was fixed"? Really? And if none of that software > worked before this commit, how come they were already in ports? I do not think that mentioning of this should appear in release notes, but Roman is mostly right in stating the fact. Newest glibc reads <linuxroot>/proc/pid/maps in chunks to determine stack address for created thread. Failure of the read(2) caused new linux libraries to fail on our linuxolator. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkjzTbwACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4hesQCgpdyjk8qj5uH6tjJsUaf6lsOa opQAn1VR+cIO2RzCXAtpAOLFWcf2KPT5 =etii -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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