A tiny fake uname call gets Zed's remote server running on FreeBSD
Lying to Zed to get its remote server running on FreeBSD
Zed has no FreeBSD remote server, so Hayzam spoofed the platform string with a small uname wrapper, letting FreeBSD's Linuxulator run the Linux build. That exposed a kernel regression: a February 2026 NFS fix made the Linux getdents path over-read its buffer, so Zed saw empty folders or silently lost files. His patch, now in FreeBSD 15.2, fixes both getdents and getdents64.
When I tried the quiet way, 112 of my 1,002 files vanished (from the listing) with no warning. A loud error beats a quiet loss I'm pretty sure.