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Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add stubs for Linux 2.6.17 syscalls
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Roman Divacky wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:56:50PM -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > The attached patch adds stubs for Linux 2.6.17 syscalls.  Even though
> > some syscalls were not in official 2.6.16 kernel (e.g.,
> > [gs]et_robust_list() showed up in 2.6.17-rc1), GNU libc started using
> > them for NPTL and FC4 updated 2.6 kernel to 2.6.17 later.
> >
> > If you have any concern or objection, please speak up now.
>
> please do commit... no objection from me

wouldnt it be good to add a rc.conf tunable to say what type of kernel to
use?

Like:
linux_enable="YES"
linux_version="2.6"

And let '/etc/rc.d/abi start' handle the sysctl setting. This way you may
update the kernel versions whenever you feel like it to whatever version
you want and we (the users) dont need to care about it, we just specify
2.4 or 2.6.

I also want to thank you all for working on the linuxulator. I use it
mainly for gameservers and the newer gameservers needs 2.6 to operate.

/Bjorn