From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Oct 16 01:34:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28878 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 01:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28866; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 01:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA01967; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:34:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199810160834.KAA01967@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: LD_PRELOAD & Linux emulation In-Reply-To: <199810160815.BAA01642@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Oct 16, 98 01:15:42 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:34:12 +0200 (CEST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, shocking@prth.pgs.com, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In reply to Mike Smith who wrote: > > > > > > The current linux_lib port is a bit woefully old. We support glibc > > > binaries, but you need a new set of libs. It's hard to work out which > > > ones we should have, and harder still because there's no real "owner" > > > of our Linux emulation at this point in time. > > > > We dont ??, strange, I've always thought of it as my baby :) > > Great. Maintain it, Dad. > > 8) > > Seriously, we're probably down 5-10 syscalls, and the supporting > libraries haven't been updated for ~12 months or so. Saying "I wrote > lots of it" is fine, but "I maintain it" is another story altogether. I'm talking only about the linuxulator not the libs, thats a totally different story (ie nightmare). What currently seems to be the showstopper is our pipe implementation, I'm not sure what exactly is the problem yet. I've just freed a machine and gotten a redhat 5.1 installed (and people complain about our install :) ).... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message