Linux compatibility layer's wiki page

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Roman Divacky <rdivacky at freebsd.org> (from Wed, 13 Feb 2008  
10:15:52 +0100):

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:39:12PM -0600, Novembre wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just wanted to mention that the wiki page for Linux compatibility
>> layer ( http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel ) has not been updated
>> for about 5 months. I was wondering about the status of the project
>> right now, whether it's ready to use, etc.
>
> its been ready to use for many years :) nothing much happened over
> the 5 months... but there are things in the queue waiting to be commited.

We could do a new run with a recent LTP release and update the LP  
page... unfortunately I don't have the time and not enough resources  
for this.

> most notably - *at syscalls (linuxulator and native ones), this is quite
> close to be commited (waiting for me to answer kib@ some questions which
> I hope to do really soon now), also epoll seems to be ready for the prime
> time but I havent found anyone who can review/commit that (it's really
> trivial so I think anyone can do that)

Post the epoll patch here on emulation.

> overall the status of linuxulator is really good I'd say, especially
> with the recent fix to mmap()

We should mention that we have a known bug in the linux getents().

> There's a plan to switch over to 2.6 emulation on default once 7.0
> is released

More precisely: after *at() and epoll hits the tree, we plan to switch  
to 2.6 in _current_ (after a HEADS UP to current@).

Bye,
Alexander.

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