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
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