> Dear Hackers, > > Is there any chance that the patch given in kern/40611 could be > committed to the 4-STABLE tree? It has the desirable effect of making > eg. the linux-sun-jdk14 port usable as a non-root user. This would > appear to my untutored eye to be a sub-set of the differences already > existing between the HEAD and RELENG_4 versions of > src/sys/posix4/p1003_1b.c > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK > I've a similar but more complete patch. It handles both get and set cases, and also takes into account jailed environment. It should have identical semantics to -current (except for the see_other_uids flag), at least at the time when I created the patch. You may inspect the patch at http://people.freebsd.org/~luoqi/p1003_1b.diff
I didn't know there're so many people running linux apps under emulation. I've a couple of other linux related patches for -stable, among them backport of linux ptrace from -current, anyone interested? -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
