From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Jun 18 15:25:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0399B14EF9 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:24:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) Received: from alphard (alphard [128.130.111.37]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA19946; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 00:24:50 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 00:24:49 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: emulation@freebsd.org Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , Soren Schmidt Subject: Re: [emulation] Bug in linux fcntl syscall? In-Reply-To: <3768AF3D.88607061@scc.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ Sorry for the bounce, Marcel, but your mail server is listed by ORBS. ] On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> In general, in which direction is Linux emulation headed? > Ahead, of course :-) > But seriously, what do you mean exactly? > [...] > 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). This is exactly what I meant! ;-) Sorry for not being clear enough. > The best thing you can do is to track -stable. That way you'll get the > best of emulation and stability. Great. What I was worrying about is having to choose between -STABLE/-RELASE for stability and -CURRENT for the best Linux emulation both of which are required by my users. As far as I remember, before 3.0 this was a serious problem. > 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. Especially for linux-base tracking these within a couple of weeks would be great. Thanks for your ongoing efforts! Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message