From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 19 17:13:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14657 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:13:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14652 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:13:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA22759; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 11:43:36 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA26766; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 11:43:35 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981220114334.Z24125@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 11:43:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) References: <19981220100735.L24125@freebie.lemis.com> <199812192345.PAA01331@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199812192345.PAA01331@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 03:45:55PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 19 December 1998 at 15:45:55 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> On Saturday, 19 December 1998 at 14:06:45 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >>> [Brett Glass] >>>> >>>> It and every object file it generated had to >>>> be branded to work. And linking failed unpredictably, even under >>>> 3.0-current which uses a Linux ELF ld(1). I am still uncertain as >>>> to why it is so troublesome; it doesn't use kernel threads or >>>> anything else that's been known to cause problems with Linux apps. >>> >>> ktrace is your friend, perhaps. >> >> Once somebody fixes it to trace Linux executables. > > It's never needed fixing. Ah. On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 13:07:39 +0930 (CST), Michael Smith wrote: >> OK, I didn't mention the setpgids and the mincores, because they seem >> to occur more often in such loops. But why the TIOCSETD? > > I think you're suffering from syscall confusion here. The BSD ktrace isn't > much help when it comes to tracing Linux syscalls. > > Specifically, mincore() is 78, but linux syscall 78 is gettimeofday(), > and setpgid() is 82, which is linux's select(). Fortunately, ioctl() > is 54 for both systems. > What do you think we've been using all along? I don't know. You didn't tell me. > Do you ever read the -emulation list? Frequently. What are you thinking of? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message