From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 19:33:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAED316A41F; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:33:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (jojo.ms-net.de [84.16.236.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E774743D53; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:33:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (p54A5F270.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.242.112]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jB8J5AEc097721; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 20:05:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (Magellan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jB8JXKLF092782; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 20:33:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 20:33:20 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Martin Cracauer Message-ID: <20051208203320.55cd89c9@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20051207120003.A21037@cons.org> References: <1133882036.1246.15.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> <1133947843.673.3.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> <20051207142015.GF53288@garage.freebsd.pl> <1133966837.664.21.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> <20051207120003.A21037@cons.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.8; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek , Joel Dahl Subject: Re: FreeBSD list of projects for volunteers committed X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:33:51 -0000 On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 12:00:03 -0500 Martin Cracauer wrote: > [redirected to -emulation] > > This entry is misleading: > "Update the Linuxulator" > > The current text implies that the problem is with missing Linux system > calls. That is not the predominant problem by far. Since I wrote this item: I didn't wanted to imply that there is a problem. It's just the case that I noticed some "nosys" entries in the translation table. Some of them may be not worth to implement, but what if a program tries to use such a syscall? I think a "sensible" implementation of such a "needless" syscall shouldn't say it's not implemented, it should say it's not implemented on purpose. There may be some syscall's which make no sense in FreeBSD, those syscall's should get a "I do nothing, but everything is fine, no error"-implementation (I don't know what "readahead" is supposed to do, but maybe it's such a syscall). I may also be the case, that linux gained some more syscalls in a more recent kernel, and we haven't catched up (with "nosys" entries for them) yet. Does this sound ok? If yes, what about a merge of your suggestion and the existing entry? If not: feel free to replace (but I like to know what's wrong with my thoughts). Bye, Alexander. -- The computer revolution is over. The computers won. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7