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Date:      Thu, 28 May 1998 18:15:42 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux emulation failure (was Star-office) 
Message-ID:  <199805280845.SAA09947@cain.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 May 1998 01:16:08 MST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980528010801.4448D-100000@current1.whistle.com> 

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> they are trying to be smart and using a LINUX procfs feature that we don't
> support. probably trying to find out something about their command line..
> (what an odd idea what's wrong with argv/argc?)
Yeah, I had wondered that myself.. Seemed kinda dumb :(

> probably due to this failure, they are leaping off into space
> and doing an illegal memory reference. To their credit, they are trapping
> that, cleaning up and sending themselves a signal to force a core-dump.
Mm.. doesn't make up for the totally weird access to /proc =)

> probably JUSTRETURN may not be the best return value, as the program
> may not realise it had an error.
> try truss, as that gives better information under linux emulation I'm
> told.
OK, I'll give it a go

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|http://www.gsoft.com.au                                            |
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