From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 16 09:06:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD6A16A4DD for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:06:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail22.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail22.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.133.160]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D89743D46 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:06:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-19-236.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.19.236]) by mail22.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k7G96sh3008064 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:06:55 +1000 Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7G96snQ000952; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:06:54 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k7G96rZS000951; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:06:53 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:06:53 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20060816090653.GA820@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20060815141151.15ae4349@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <44E1BD03.2030402@FreeBSD.org> <20060815144625.362bf376@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <44E1C3E4.7080508@FreeBSD.org> <20060815153451.604d16f1@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <44E1E85D.5070805@FreeBSD.org> <20060815180713.6a4ee2e6@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20060815212143.G45647@fledge.watson.org> <20060816002328.365a14cd@Magellan.Leidinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="envbJBWh7q8WU6mo" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060816002328.365a14cd@Magellan.Leidinger.net> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: starting to commit linuxolator (SoC 2006) changes... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:06:58 -0000 --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2006-Aug-16 00:23:28 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >For the curious ones: the code is "activated" by changing osrelease, >because the glibc behaves differently depending on the osrelease. It >makes different syscalls based upon the linux kernel version. So if >there's a program which tries if a syscall does not return ENOSYS >instead of checking the osrelease, it may fail. If you are aware of >such a program, please tell us about it. I don't think this was mentioned before. IMHO, this is worth mentioning in the linuxolator documentation because it's not immediately obvious and it's likely to bite someone in a non- obvious way. --=20 Peter Jeremy --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE4uAt/opHv/APuIcRAlcJAJ0ThzR6QIqbcEwe2Pmwao//2wwCCwCbBkbk Tmdn7cbAdT6l1oRvm3vs05w= =CgIC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo--