Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:10:25 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Niall Smart <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: allegro lisp Message-ID: <19980602121025.04763@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <E0yf1Z1-0001h4-00@oak66.doc.ic.ac.uk>; from Niall Smart on Thu, May 28, 1998 at 01:13:42PM %2B0100 References: <E0yf1Z1-0001h4-00@oak66.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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In <E0yf1Z1-0001h4-00@oak66.doc.ic.ac.uk>, Niall Smart wrote: > AFAIK Allegro Lisp is used by quite a few people who run FreeBSD, > therefore I suggest we contact them to inquire about the possibility > of helping to ensure that the Linux version works under emulation on > FreeBSD. A fix for the 4.2 coredump problem has been committed to -current a few weeks ago. I didn't try it, but the change was supposed to make ACL work. > As someone has noted already, 5.0 beta does not work in > FreeBSD compatability because it expects a linux /proc filesystem which > the emulation layer does not fully support. Perhaps they will consider > modifying it to do whatever it is trying to do in a more portable way, > or at least one which is compatable with our compatability layer :) Well, I think a) relying on undocumented procfs behaviour to do anything will make your software break on future version of the OS as well. b) Should we try to emulate /proc, we will quickly run into problems that kernel or process structure internals will be exposed when they shouldn't. Or in other words, there's a good chance that the application in question moves from using an API to using an inplementation, which is where we have to stop emulating. > If anyone here is friendly with the folks at Franz Inc. or has a support > contract with them and is willing to request this of them then please > email me. Otherwise I will contact them myself later this week. Please do so. Maybe they can provide an exact list they expect /proc to do (that menas what they are missing from the API). Also, check the Staroffice thread on -hackers as well, exactly the same problem. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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