From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Jun 17 1:18:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2635A14CB0 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 01:18:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from scones.sup.scc.nl (i435.ztm.euronet.nl [194.134.67.156]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA16913; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:18:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA58828; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:18:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <3768AF3D.88607061@scc.nl> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:18:05 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: Soren Schmidt , emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [emulation] Bug in linux fcntl syscall? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > The patches are attached as a single file. All three patches are for > > -current. I also got patches for enhancement (3) for 3.2 and 2.2.8 > > releases on my page (http://www.scc.nl/~marcel/) > > In general, in which direction is Linux emulation headed? Ahead, of course :-) But seriously, what do you mean exactly? > We had problems in 2.2.x when Linux emulation was out-of-date and for > sites like mine (with constant presure to move to Linux) having rock > solid FreeBSD-RELEASE with most advanced Linux emulation (only in > -CURRENT?) is strongly desirable? > > How can I/we solve this dilemma? Or are you planing to backport most > of the changes in -CURRENT to -RELEASE as well? The 3 changes in the patchfile can easily be backported. I don't think any patches should be applied to the 2.2.x branch. I don't mind storing those patches on my site so anyone who is still using 2.2.8 can easily apply them (if applicable :-) Currently, Linux emulation is identical for -stable and -current (as far as I can see it). I can't remember any major changes in -current. If a change is generally "good" then it shall probably also be applied to -stable as well (if at all possible, of course). The best thing you can do is to track -stable. That way you'll get the best of emulation and stability. As for the linux-base and linux-devel ports. I'd like to follow the RH releases with a couple of weeks/months between the RH release and the ports update. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4200655 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message