Matt Lewandowsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's always been more interest in the community than effort when it comes > to the lx brand. As Garrett said, it's extremely non-trivial to maintain, let > alone enhance. Dragons have been sighted in the realm of lx. >
If someone is really going to put effort into this piece of code, I would see it integrated in a different way as a final goal: We are no longer forced to do political decisions like Sun did in the past. So it would make sense to allow to use the lx brand not only in a dedicated zone but also anywhere else. The basic idea for this module is a re-implementation of LKP (Linux Kernel Personality) from SCO. I did not boot UniXWare since 2 years, so let me explain from memory: >From a UNIX process, you see a tree: /linux/* that contains a complete Linux installation. >From a Linux process, you see a tree: /unix/* that contains the complete UNIX installation. If you try to exec() a new process with a PATH that begins with "/linux", then the Linux compatibility is turned on. Any further process inherits an environment that grants Linux behavior even though the PATH does not begin with "/linux" as the chroot() for Linux processes is inside "/linux". Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss
