From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 29 22:40:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA24061 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 22:40:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles135.castles.com [208.214.165.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23963 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 22:39:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA00639; Fri, 29 May 1998 21:35:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805300435.VAA00639@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Amancio Hasty cc: Mike Smith , "Ron G. Minnich" , "Daniel O'Connor" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Star Office Installation In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 May 1998 22:21:42 PDT." <199805300521.WAA09231@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 21:35:17 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Yes, it could be a problem and at least I verify that it works . Had > instances in the past where linux people blindly claimed that something > worked and such was not the case. Additionally, upon exit StarOffice > cleans up its shared segments. > > My next question is , > why so many postings about Star Office without a single soul venturing > into the linux layer to solve at least the ipc shared memory segments > clean up? I've wandered in there several times in support of people that have been hacking on it. There are a couple of major issues with shared memory: - The Linux system calls need to be emulated correctly. We're closer than we used to be, but not perfect yet. - The data structures that Linux uses to control these structures is different to FreeBSD's. In particular, look at the shmid_ds structure. I can't find the thread from last time I was looking at this, which tends to imply that nothing came of it. You may want to talk to Kato, as his fingers were the last ones doing anything useful in linux_ipc.c. -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message