From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 26 11:34:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77D3637B401; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:34:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA54A43ED8; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:34:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0QJZqiE006158; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:35:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E343872.9020108@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:35:14 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: pura life CR , FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emulation (was: Misc Questions.) References: <3E32DDB6.7040308@potentialtech.com> <20030126084812.GC1982@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message