From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Jun 14 5:37:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565D637B401 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 05:37:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA27527; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:37:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Archie Cobbs Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need Linux emulation patch review References: <200106132353.f5DNrro64784@bubba.packetdesign.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 Jun 2001 14:37:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 8 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Oh, I forgot: the patch can definitely not be committed as-is. It does its work by modifying the if_name member of the ifnet structure, and changing it back on the way out, without any kind of locking at all. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message