kern/91293: [svr4] [patch] *Experimental* Update to the SVR4 emulation (from NetBSD)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 06:09:59PM +0100, pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> --- Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> ha scritto: 
> 
> ...
> > > 
> > > What is left on the patch at this point are only bug fixes to panics and
> > > overflows from the NetBSD port. This is not something I can test on amd64
> > and
> > > rebuilding a kernel on qemu is painfully slow.
> > 
> > Unfortunately this makes it unlikely anyone will commit your fixes,
> > since they're untested.
> > 
> 
> They are tested... on NetBSD.

Right, which as you know is quite different to FreeBSD in many ways.

> In any case it's not easy to find an application
> that will exercise a buffer overflow or a fix in sysconf.

As long as applications continue to work, it's enough.

Kris
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