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Re: CVS commit: src/sys



In article <9238BF00-A562-4B2B-86DC-26B2CA20D159%shagadelic.org@localhost>,
Jason Thorpe  <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost> wrote:
>
>On Apr 24, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
>
>>>> Log Message:
>>>> - Retire SYCALL_MPSAFE. With the exceptions of darwin and irix
>>>> emulations,
>>>> all system calls are now MPSAFE.
>>>
>>> I would suggest it's time to retire the Darwin emulation -- it's
>>> hopelessly out of date.
>>
>> I think that we should make a set of those emulated binaries which
>> call all the emulated system calls, so that users who don't have
>> emulated binaries can try & test emulation code.
>
>My point is that it's hopelessly out of date with respect to Mac OS  
>X.  No modern OS X binary would run under our Darwin emulation.

Could be fixed though... It is good for reference. If one day it is fixed
I think it will actually run a lot faster than OS/X.

christos



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