From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 20 19:33:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04286 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:33:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles236.castles.com [208.214.165.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04257 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:33:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02401; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:38:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809210238.TAA02401@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: George Michaelson cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: staroffice/linux-compat on Current working? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 10:54:02 +1000." <1414.906339242@dstc.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:38:31 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Are there known problems with linux compat and current? Yes. There are also unknown problems. > I snarfed an OpenLinux CD with staroffice 4.0 and found > that it worked right up to about 30 seconds of elapsed > walltime when truss shows its spinlooped in SIGNAL 11 and > it has to be killed. > > Could be an applications error of course. I'm just assuming that > while current stabilizes as 3.0 there may be some compat problems > which can catch the unwary. This isn't likely to be one of them. > If this is of concern, I can try to provide better debug/trace if > somebody cares. What is needed is an active developer (or perhaps several) working on Linux emulation as an active project. We don't have any such at this point in time. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message