Subject: Re: linux emul & net config
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/29/2002 00:51:51
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 08:44:33AM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> by default, linux AF_INET6 socket accepts IPv4 traffic via IPv4 mapped
> address. netbsd disables it by default.
> the following diff should automagically configures linux-emulation
> sockets to accept IPv4 traffic via IPv4 mapped address.
>
> i'm not an emulation guy, so i need someone to review this.
> specifically error handling.
This looks like it won't work. You're assigning kernel space pointers
to a syscall arg structure, and the system call will expect them
to be in userspace. That's why emulations use stackgap_alloc.
I wouldn't call sys_*, but a function one or more levels below that.
- Frank
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