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Date:      Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:35:14 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>
Cc:        pura life CR <puralifecr@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Emulation (was: Misc Questions.)
Message-ID:  <3E343872.9020108@potentialtech.com>
References:  <F66WZhKmcEntH4NnXoN0000e3f8@hotmail.com> <3E32DDB6.7040308@potentialtech.com> <20030126084812.GC1982@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 January 2003 at 13:55:50 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
>>pura life CR wrote:
>>
>>>What does this emulation consist on? Can I run linux and svr4 binaries?.
>>
>>It's not really emulation.  In the case of Linux, it actually installs a
>>RedHat kernel and uses it when the system calls differ from the native
>>FreeBSD system calls.
> 
> No, that's not correct.  It installs Red Hat (I think) libraries, but
> there's no way to run two kernels on a system.  There is special
> non-Linux code which implements the differences between FreeBSD and
> Linux system calls.

Well, I'm definately no expert on the Linuxulator, so thanks for the
correction, Greg.  I guess I was being very sloppy in my explaination.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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