From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 26 12:01:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AA116A46E; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:01:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mathom@pifpaf.pl) Received: from main.pifpaf.pl (main.pifpaf.pl [193.42.218.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC45913C4F3; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:01:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mathom@pifpaf.pl) Received: from mathom.promienista (esk32.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.20.130.32]) (authenticated bits=0) by Mail Exchanger main.pifpaf.pl with ESMTP id m0QC1mid064353; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:01:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mathom@pifpaf.pl) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:01:47 +0100 From: Tomasz Formanowski X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.5.26) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <157462854.20080126130147@pifpaf.pl> To: Roman Divacky In-Reply-To: <20080122151941.GA93141@freebsd.org> References: <1096069283.20080122130241@pifpaf.pl> <20080122151941.GA93141@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Status: No, score=-102.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO,USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on mail.pifpaf.pl X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.90.1, clamav-milter version 0.90.1 on main.pifpaf.pl X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re[2]: getdents() X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Tomasz Formanowski List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:01:50 -0000 RD> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:02:41PM +0100, Tomasz Formanowski wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any hope that this: >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=117010 >> >> will be fixed soon ? >> >> Linux emulation is unusable now for newer software, like game servers >> etc. RD> in private mails we agreed that tomasz/his-company and me will try RD> to cooperate on this on... RD> hopefully this will fruit some results We've looked through the code and decided to give linux a try. We've been using freebsd for 5 years in production environment and it's a good system. So we wont be fixing this bugs, sorry. If it were only this one bug, than why not, but ... There were problems with: SMP support, which we hoped would be fixed in 7.x releases. And maybe it were, but linuxolator is a mess there. Bottomline is, that not only 2.6 kernel support is incomplete, there is also faulty 2.4 support. Apart from getdents() problems (which probably is really a deeper problem - looks like programs crash not on getdents() but on closedir(). just as something had freed the descriptor), there seems to be a problem with fork() event in 2.4 kernel and fc4 libs. Programs like team speak 2 and unreal-server crash when trying to fork. With all our sympathy to freebsd, we sadly have to say, that this is going nowhere :( regards tf