Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 14:12:46 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Niall Smart <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: allegro lisp Message-ID: <19980602141246.12993@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <19980602121025.04763@cons.org>; from Martin Cracauer on Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 12:10:25PM %2B0200 References: <E0yf1Z1-0001h4-00@oak66.doc.ic.ac.uk> <19980602121025.04763@cons.org>
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On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 12:10:25PM +0200, Martin Cracauer wrote: > 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. It has also been committed to -stable. It seems to work fine. > > 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 :) They have added support for reading the FreeBSD /proc if the Linux /proc isn't there :-) > 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. Linux is already doing this. They're exposing things that seem to be very, very difficult to expose for us, and which I believe would limit further possibilies for development if we choose to export. > > 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. I've been in contact with them. I think they've resolved the /proc issues, but they don't want to document that ACL for Linux runs under FreeBSD until they know exactly how well it run, and can document any limitations. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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