weird linux/solaris problem.
Roger Fujii
rmf at lookhere.com
Tue Nov 13 15:47:30 CST 2001
Well, I finally figured out the major problem I've been having with
wine and virtualdub under solaris, but I'm not sure what to do about it.
In memory/virtual.c, there are 2 problems:
1) in function anon_mmap_aligned, there is a
section that tries to release extra memory. The problem is that
under solaris, munmap length parameter is defined as:
The munmap() function removes the mappings for pages in the
range [addr, addr + len), rounding the len argument up to
the next multiple of the page size as returned by
sysconf(3C).
It's not exactly clear what the linux munmap does, but I think
that the linux one does what you think it SHOULD do, and the
solaris one does what is documented (i.e. will unmap more pages
than what the linux one thinks it would since it rounds UP the len).
Now, I can see 2 fixes: 1 is to #ifdef __svr4 and compute the
compensated len before unmapping. The other is to just not do
this release (or at least not do it for __svr4).
Any comments?
2) For some reason I don't quite understand, a call is made
to VirtualProtect with a READONLY protection, and soon after,
something tries to memcpy into that block. I'm not sure if
this is a thread sync issue, or maybe this is supposed to
work like c's const (ie, it's readonly AFTER the first write).
Kind of puzzling, since it does work under linux. Any
suggestions? (my current fix is to treat READONLY as RW, which
works, but I know is wrong).
Thanks.
-r
Roger Fujii <rmf at lookhere.com>
Underemployed, and trying to keep it that way....
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