MPSAFE TTY: Linux PTY's

Roman Divacky rdivacky at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 2 08:56:12 UTC 2008


On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 03:06:10PM +0400, Chagin Dmitry wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:29:46PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:29:27PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> > > Hello Emulation folks,
> > > 
> > > I just wanted to send you all a message to say one of the things I tried
> > > to improve in the MPSAFE TTY branch was support for PTY's for Linux
> > > binaries.
> > > 
> > > At home I've got a FreeBSD Jail running Debian Etch. Unfortunately,
> > > Linux sendmsg() is a little broken on FreeBSD/amd64, but so far I've
> > > been able to at least get OpenSSH (as root) and GNU Screen working.
> > 
> > I believe dmitry has a patch for this..
> 
> the patch is bellow, I tested a patch only on LTP tests (with little changes),
> it's necessary to test on real apps, it will be good if Ed will test..

this should be reviewed by someone with a knowledge of how networking works in 
FreeBSD. Any volunteer? Dmitry, can you send a mail to net@ describing the changes
in the patch and ask for a review there?

thnx!

roman


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