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Date:      Fri, 29 May 1998 08:25:04 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com>
Cc:        emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Allegro 5.0 (was Re: Star Office Installation) 
Message-ID:  <199805291525.IAA02887@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 May 1998 06:31:10 PDT." <199805291331.GAA15746@snapdragon.csl.sri.com> 

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> Turns out that Allegro 5.0 is trying to read /proc/<pid>/maps (in
> fact, /compat/linux/proc/<pid>/maps) and NOT /proc/<pid>/map.

It sounds like this is the new approach to their memory management, 
rather than the older signal-based one.  *sigh*  Just when you fix one 
feature, they abandon it...

> I suspect that once we get by this problem we'll run into other
> problems.  I think ACL 5.0 uses more of the low-level features of
> Linux, such as threads.

If you mean "kernel-assisted threading" then emulation will be 
problematic. 8(

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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