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[66.111.4.25]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c25si2800672qch.2.2012.04.07.16.31.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of eekee57@fastmail.fm designates 66.111.4.25 as permitted sender) client-ip=66.111.4.25; Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E69C209F3 for <9front@googlegroups.com>; Sat, 7 Apr 2012 19:30:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:30:20 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: hYAlB0JGmXpLtQ5zCR350Wn9OYxd8HGfqYTEdAThO821 1333841419 Received: from inari.ethans.dre.am (client-86-25-230-25.lds-bng-012.adsl.virginmedia.net [86.25.230.25]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 85EE48E01F7 for <9front@googlegroups.com>; Sat, 7 Apr 2012 19:30:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 00:30:17 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9front@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Linuxemu and Slackware 11.0, preliminary report Message-ID: <20120408003017.24035688@inari.ethans.dre.am> In-Reply-To: <3F15F5F5-7ECB-431A-BD97-7EC7919942A3@quintile.net> References: <20120402145304.2349006c@inari.ethans.dre.am> <3F15F5F5-7ECB-431A-BD97-7EC7919942A3@quintile.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.18.9; i486-slackware-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Sender: eekee57@fastmail.fm X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of eekee57@fastmail.fm designates 66.111.4.25 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=eekee57@fastmail.fm; dkim=pass header.i=@fastmail.fm Reply-To: 9front@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list 9front@googlegroups.com; contact 9front+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: <9front.googlegroups.com> X-Google-Group-Id: 831096995978 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: 9front@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 10:17:31 +0100 steve wrote: > i did quite a bit of work on linuxemu last year but never got it to a stage where i was happy to generally release it. for me, working with debian, the improved linuxemu will now work > happily with the current debian distribution; i have not tried slackware. Awesome. If it works with Debian I don't see why it wouldn't work with Slackware. > > the most controversial change was in the handling of special files, which i flag using > a combination of plan9's append and exclusive bits, rather than cinap's choice of using > an escaped "special" filename. > > the change makes open, stat, and wstat cheaper as the file you a moifying is easily found, > however it does mean you have to use mkfs/extfs of linux'tar to move files about, plan9's tar > will not do as it does not understand these extra mode flags. Fine by me, Plan 9's tar was no good for bootstrapping anyway. > > there are many other changes including a symlink cache, and wider linux systemcall coverage. > > i use this daily at work for svn and ghostscript, and opera but i haven't tried much else, > what i have tried does work. Opera is the main thing for me too, but I'm also lazy and don't want to port puzzle games if I can have them in linuxemu. > > you are welcome to try mycode which is in /n/sources/contrib/linuxemu.tgz, though > i cannot help much at the moment as i am on holiday. uh, bad path, no? what's your user dir?