Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:53:18 +0200 From: Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: new dummy syscalls for linuxolator -> new console ?messages Message-ID: <20060615075318.GB32878@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> In-Reply-To: <200606141245.k5ECjjjY086499@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <freebsd-emulation.20060614111308.eln9cfa8o0c4osko@netchild.homeip.net> <200606141245.k5ECjjjY086499@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:45:45PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> wrote: > > Quoting Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> wrote: > > > [...] > > > I doubt anyone will see any messages unless he/she sets > > > compat.linux.osrelease > > > to something higher then 2.6.16 > > > > Which is not recommended except you don't mind running into bugs and > > getting coredumps from some programs. > > That's interesting to know. Is that documented somewhere? > I always set the sysctls like this (e.g. on FreeBSD 6.1): > > compat.linux.osrelease: 6.1 > compat.linux.osname: FreeBSD this setting doesnt make any sense.. the osrelease should be set to the version of linux kernel you want to emulate. ie. 2.4.2 or 2.6.16 etc. I think that if you set it to 6.1 nothing happens because libc (libc reads this and then mangles its internals accordingly) doesnt understand this and choses the safest values... romanhome | help
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