Re: Re[2]: Wine and mmap

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:44:51PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote:
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> On Friday 27 August 2004 05:53 am, Angry Virus wrote:
> > JB> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:37:07AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Angry Virus wrote:
> > >> >Do you know why WINE versions later than 20040505 cannot launch on
> > >> >FreeBSD 5.2.1 with mmap error, and will this fixed or not.
> > >>
> > >> This is a FreeBSD kernel issue, which was triggered by an improvement
> > >> in Wine (and does not occur on Linux).
> > >>
> > >> I am Cc:ing John who did a good analysis on that in June and said he'll
> > >> try to hack the FreeBSD; do you have any news on that, John?
> > >>
> > >> Gerald
> > >>
> > >> PS: anvir, please note that I nearly deleted your message as spam, due
> > >> to your strange "real name".
> >
> > JB> Anish Mistry <mistry.7_at_osu.edu> has developed a patch to choose an
> > appropriate JB> mmap address. He posted it to -current. I haven't had time
> > to test it.
> >
> > Sorry for troubling you.
> > Do you know which RELEASE of FreeBSD will include this patch (or it
> > will not)?
> > I really want to use wine-20040813 coz of its advatages, but im full donkey
> > in system upgrading :)
> I don't believe anyone with a commit bit has looked at the patches yet since 
> everyone is pretty busy getting this in shape for 5.3 since it's going to 
> start the STABLE branch of the 5.x tree.  I'm hoping that the patches will be 
> included in 5.4 but that all depends on if I can get someone who really knows 
> what they are doing to take a look.  There are still some pthread issues with 
> wine on 5.x and some other weird issues on 4.x I was able to get some 
> programs to run on 5.x with the August version of wine, and all programs I 
> tested to run on 4.x with the June version of wine, the later version again 
> have several weird threading issues I'm hoping someone else can take a look 
> at.
> - -- 
> Anish Mistry

Can you be certain that 100% of kernel changes to support WINE are present
after fixing mmap?  I heard WINE was still broken, so I haven't bothered
trying.

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