From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 8 10:56:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA15449 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:56:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA15333; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:55:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pb@fasterix.frmug.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.8.8/frmug-2.2/nospam) with UUCP id TAA19209; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 19:55:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pb@fasterix.frmug.org) Received: (from pb@localhost) by fasterix.frmug.org (8.8.8/8.8.5/pb-19970302) id TAA03410; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 19:55:21 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19980108195521.OO22099@@> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 19:55:21 +0100 From: pb@fasterix.freenix.org (Pierre Beyssac) To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), pb@fasterix.freenix.org (Pierre Beyssac), emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: playing with the Linux JDK 1.1.3 under -current References: <199801070630.RAA00809@word.smith.net.au> <199801081734.KAA19855@harmony.village.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.59.1e Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199801081734.KAA19855@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Jan 8, 1998 10:34:42 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Warner Losh writes: > One thing you might want to look at is the OpenBSD hacks in the last > month or two in their Linux emulator. Thanks for the hint, I'll give their code a look and will try to integrate their fixes. I have just sent PRs with patches for 2 fixes (TCP_NODELAY and the non-blocking connect I mentioned), but I haven't had the PR # returned yet. I'll send these to Mike when I get them. > There are a fair number of > quirks in Linux's implementation of the socket API that they had to do > some really gross things. I can't say this surprises me... Compatibility with existing code was apparently the last of their worries, it's so much better to reinvent the wheel as usual. -- Pierre Beyssac pb@fasterix.frmug.org pb@fasterix.freenix.org {Free,Net,Open}BSD, Linux : il y a moins bien, mais c'est plus cher Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org