Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 16:30:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <lists@tar.com> Cc: "emulation@freebsd.org" <emulation@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: linux_pipe, broken? Message-ID: <199812080030.QAA01257@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Dec 1998 13:42:37 CST." <199812071942.NAA11122@ns.tar.com>
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> Is the pipe call in linux emulation (linux_pipe) broken? There have been periodic reports that it's not Doing the Right Thing. > I've been experimenting with getting linux threads running in > linux emulation mode. Linux threads creates a thread manager > thread and uses a pipe to communicate requests for thread > creation and termination to the thread manager. It appears > that the thread manager gets corrupted data when it reads > from the pipe. The thread manager thread appears to be > created ok, and hangs when it gets a bad address in data > read from the pipe (why it doesn't seg fault is beyond me -- > the address it gets in the data is 0x4, which happens to be > the fd of the write end of the pipe, the read end is 0x3). > > Also, I tried getting StarOffice 5.0 running, and the setup > program seg faults immediately after executing a pipe call, > before linux threads is started. I would suggest that you should sit down for a little while and work out what's going on then - this does indeed seem quite broken. -- \\ 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-emulation" in the body of the message
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