Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:34:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, shocking@prth.pgs.com, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LD_PRELOAD & Linux emulation Message-ID: <199810160834.KAA01967@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199810160815.BAA01642@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Oct 16, 98 01:15:42 am"
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In reply to Mike Smith who wrote:
> > >
> > > The current linux_lib port is a bit woefully old. We support glibc
> > > binaries, but you need a new set of libs. It's hard to work out which
> > > ones we should have, and harder still because there's no real "owner"
> > > of our Linux emulation at this point in time.
> >
> > We dont ??, strange, I've always thought of it as my baby :)
>
> Great. Maintain it, Dad.
>
> 8)
>
> Seriously, we're probably down 5-10 syscalls, and the supporting
> libraries haven't been updated for ~12 months or so. Saying "I wrote
> lots of it" is fine, but "I maintain it" is another story altogether.
I'm talking only about the linuxulator not the libs, thats a totally
different story (ie nightmare). What currently seems to be the
showstopper is our pipe implementation, I'm not sure what exactly is
the problem yet. I've just freed a machine and gotten a redhat 5.1
installed (and people complain about our install :) )....
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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