Subject: Re: COMPAT_LINUX: why getpid() turned into a chown()?
To: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/31/2001 14:35:09
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Ross Harvey wrote:

> Does 4.03 on i386 work for you in -current?  I would be surprised if it
> did. 4.7 is a big slow pig, and I really don't have time to wait for it to
> stop in a random and superficially nondeterministic way, and then rattle
> the disk 200 times before proceeding. I keep both versions around; I use
> 4.03 most of the time and start 4.7* for some secured pages.

Just a note to everyone - this thread started out being about COMPAT_LINUX
on powerpc, and how it seems to be changing system call #'s on the fly.
So questions about it on i386 will be a bit out of the blue. :-(

Take care,

Bill