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[Alexander Leidinger]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 12:00:03 -0500
Martin Cracauer <cracauer at cons.org> wrote:

> [redirected to -emulation]
> 
> This entry is misleading:
> "Update the Linuxulator"
> 
> The current text implies that the problem is with missing Linux system
> calls.  That is not the predominant problem by far.

Since I wrote this item: I didn't wanted to imply that there is a
problem. It's just the case that I noticed some "nosys" entries in the
translation table. Some of them  may be not worth to implement, but
what if a program tries to use such a syscall? I think a "sensible"
implementation of such a "needless" syscall shouldn't say it's not
implemented, it should say it's not implemented on purpose. There may
be some syscall's which make no sense in FreeBSD, those syscall's
should get a "I do nothing, but everything is fine, no
error"-implementation (I don't know what "readahead" is supposed to do,
but maybe it's such a syscall). I may also be the case, that linux
gained some more syscalls in a more recent kernel, and we haven't
catched up (with "nosys" entries for them) yet. Does this sound ok? If
yes, what about a merge of your suggestion and the existing entry? If
not: feel free to replace (but I like to know what's wrong with my
thoughts).

Bye,
Alexander.

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