Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 16:24:53 +0930 From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: iBCS status? Message-ID: <20000606162453.B83108@internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20000606012552.A1515@dan.emsphone.com> References: <000a01bfcf7a$cc810330$1200a8c0@matt> <20000606152128.B82736@internode.com.au> <20000606012552.A1515@dan.emsphone.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 01:25:53AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jun 06), Mark Newton said:
> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 01:48:10AM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> >
> > > I was recently playing around with iBCS support in FreeBSD
> > > 3.4/4.0, and noticed that there hasn't been much done since 96/97.
> > > From what I can see now, FreeBSD can't run SCO OpenServer 5.0 ELF
> > > binaries, which is a feature I need desperately -- Linux has this
> > > functionality. If anyone is working on iBCS, let me know,
> > > otherwise I'll start hacking away at the the emulation code to
> > > allow SCO OSR5 ELF stuff.
> >
> > SCO OpenServer doesn't use iBCS2, it's an SysVR4 ELF system. FreeBSD
> > has notional support for it under the svr4 emulator in 4.x and
> > -current, but hardly any testing has been done with SCO (I've been
> > using Solaris binaries and libraries).
>
> I can say it pretty much doesn't work at all on SCO.
I'm not at all surprised :-) I've had some reports from people who say
they've had limited success, but since I don't have any SCO bits here
I haven't been running any SCO software.
> There is
> apparently quite a difference between Solaris and SCO SVR4; the first
> thing I had to do was change the lseek() syscall to use 32-bit offsets
> instead of 64-bit, for example.
Interesting - Solaris has two lseek syscalls, notionally "lseek" and
"lseek64". If SCO only has one, which is a 64 bit variant, could
you perhaps let me know what its syscall number is?
- mark
--
Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W)
Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H)
Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999
"Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000606162453.B83108>