Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:09:54 +0100 From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org> To: Tomasz Formanowski <mathom@pifpaf.pl> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: getdents() Message-ID: <20080126120954.GA68884@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <157462854.20080126130147@pifpaf.pl> References: <1096069283.20080122130241@pifpaf.pl> <20080122151941.GA93141@freebsd.org> <157462854.20080126130147@pifpaf.pl>
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On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:01:47PM +0100, Tomasz Formanowski wrote: > RD> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:02:41PM +0100, Tomasz Formanowski wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is there any hope that this: > >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=117010 > >> > >> will be fixed soon ? > >> > >> Linux emulation is unusable now for newer software, like game servers > >> etc. > > RD> in private mails we agreed that tomasz/his-company and me will try > RD> to cooperate on this on... > > RD> hopefully this will fruit some results > > > We've looked through the code and decided to give linux a try. We've > been using freebsd for 5 years in production environment and it's a > good system. So we wont be fixing this bugs, sorry. If it were only > this one bug, than why not, but ... sorry to hear that > There were problems with: SMP support, which we hoped would be fixed > in 7.x releases. And maybe it were, but linuxolator is a mess there. > Bottomline is, that not only 2.6 kernel support is incomplete, there what exactly do you miss int he 2.6 support? there's epoll() and *at syscalls in the queue + some smaller patches > is also faulty 2.4 support. Apart from getdents() problems (which > probably is really a deeper problem - looks like programs crash not on > getdents() but on closedir(). just as something had freed the > descriptor), there seems to be a problem with fork() event in 2.4 > kernel and fc4 libs. Programs like team speak 2 and unreal-server > crash when trying to fork. can you elaborate a little more on the problems you faced? having them documented cant hurt... I still hope to find some time to fix things roman
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