Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 19:55:21 +0100 From: pb@fasterix.freenix.org (Pierre Beyssac) To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), pb@fasterix.freenix.org (Pierre Beyssac), emulation@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: playing with the Linux JDK 1.1.3 under -current Message-ID: <19980108195521.OO22099@@> In-Reply-To: <199801081734.KAA19855@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Jan 8, 1998 10:34:42 -0700 References: <199801070630.RAA00809@word.smith.net.au> <199801081734.KAA19855@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh writes:
> One thing you might want to look at is the OpenBSD hacks in the last
> month or two in their Linux emulator.
Thanks for the hint, I'll give their code a look and will try to
integrate their fixes.
I have just sent PRs with patches for 2 fixes (TCP_NODELAY and the
non-blocking connect I mentioned), but I haven't had the PR #
returned yet. I'll send these to Mike when I get them.
> There are a fair number of
> quirks in Linux's implementation of the socket API that they had to do
> some really gross things.
I can't say this surprises me... Compatibility with existing code
was apparently the last of their worries, it's so much better to
reinvent the wheel as usual.
--
Pierre Beyssac pb@fasterix.frmug.org pb@fasterix.freenix.org
{Free,Net,Open}BSD, Linux : il y a moins bien, mais c'est plus cher
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