From: Chris L. <ch...@ex...> - 2005-10-04 10:09:22
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:59:54PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Monday 03 October 2005 14:39, Jeff Dike wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > > At the cost that lots of programs in the guest simply > > > won't work (strace, make, java, ime). Or has there been > > > work fixing this? > > > > What are you talking about? sysemu breaks nothing inside the guest. > It did once upon a time, it broke strace, around the time of 2.6.9 or such (I > remember that distinctly), but IIRC it was fixed later, mainly by Bodo > Stroesser. hmmm. Still broken sfaict (see my earlier email). > Make/java were never broken - Jeff recently fixed some Java breakage, but that > was totally independent from SYSEMU - it had to do with semantics of > mmap(PROT_NONE). Never investigated the java one in detail, but the make one was observed building, http://search-dev.develooper.com/CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/PHP-Session-0.22.tar.gz and resulted in make aborting with, make: *** wait: No child processes. Stop. make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make: *** wait: No child processes. Stop. without having done any work. Unfortunately my notes don't record the kernel which this occurred with (and it may have been a 2.4 series one). I can't reproduce it on 2.6.12.5, so presumably it's either fixed, or is sensitive to timing / machine configuration / .... -- ``Eden may have invaded Egypt, but one can't be too censorious, everybody gets a bit silly when they're stoned.'' (Jeremy Scott, from `Fast and Louche') |