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Date:      Sun, 20 Dec 1998 11:43:34 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-)
Message-ID:  <19981220114334.Z24125@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812192345.PAA01331@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 03:45:55PM -0800
References:  <19981220100735.L24125@freebie.lemis.com> <199812192345.PAA01331@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Saturday, 19 December 1998 at 15:45:55 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>> On Saturday, 19 December 1998 at 14:06:45 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>>> [Brett Glass]
>>>>
>>>> It and every object file it generated had to
>>>> be branded to work. And linking failed unpredictably, even under
>>>> 3.0-current which uses a Linux ELF ld(1). I am still uncertain as
>>>> to why it is so troublesome; it doesn't use kernel threads or
>>>> anything else that's been known to cause problems with Linux apps.
>>>
>>> ktrace is your friend, perhaps.
>>
>> Once somebody fixes it to trace Linux executables.
>
> It's never needed fixing.

Ah.

On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 13:07:39 +0930 (CST), Michael Smith wrote:
>> OK, I didn't mention the setpgids and the mincores, because they seem
>> to occur more often in such loops.  But why the TIOCSETD?
>
> I think you're suffering from syscall confusion here.  The BSD ktrace isn't
> much help when it comes to tracing Linux syscalls.
>
> Specifically, mincore() is 78, but linux syscall 78 is gettimeofday(),
> and setpgid() is 82, which is linux's select().  Fortunately, ioctl()
> is 54 for both systems.

> What do you think we've been using all along?

I don't know.  You didn't tell me.

> Do you ever read the -emulation list?

Frequently.  What are you thinking of?

Greg
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