Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 22:39:19 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> To: Joachim Strombergson <Joachim.Strombergson@emw.ericsson.se>, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WINE and Star Office in FreeBSD SMP -STABLE? Message-ID: <14373.631.665259.999578@celery.zuhause.org> In-Reply-To: <14372.25923.224346.841617@celery.zuhause.org> References: <38228954.F9B16724@emw.ericsson.se> <14372.25923.224346.841617@celery.zuhause.org>
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Bruce Albrecht writes: > Joachim Strombergson writes: > > As the subject suggest, could anyone tell me if WINE and/or Star Office > > works on FreeBSD STABLE running in SMP-mode? > > > > I have thought about going to CURRENT, but am a bit concerned about > > being able to get the sucker running again if the system would turn out > > to be built on one of the few temporarily bad snapshots. > > The last time I checked, which was about 6 months ago, is that no > version of 3.x after 3.0 supports programs that use shared memory with > an SMP kernel, and there are no plans to retrofit the code from -current. Looking back at old freebsd-smp messages, I see that the real issue is that you can't fork if you've got shared memory and are running an SMP kernel. I know WINE has this problem, and I think Star Office does too, but I don't know if there are any other major applications that get hit by this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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