> Also: I personally don't understand why Sun made that > design decision > back in 1997/98 to treat a booted 32bit kernel and > booted 64bit kernel > as the same platform, and hence to identify it with > the same uname() > field values. In this case I prefer how linux handles > it.
Why? It makes perfect sense. When you're on Solaris, the system is *architected* such that you don't care whether you're on 32- or 64-bit (/usr/lib/64, isaexec(3C)), and it is *engineered* such that it will automatically use/boot the correct kernel. So why worry about it? Why care about it, if the system can figure it out for himself? I would think that all you should be concerned with as a developer is to deliver both 32- and 64-bit versions of your binaries in a single package, and let isaexec(3C) figure it out for you; and as a consumer, you shouldn't have to break your head about such things; that is one of the things which were architected and engineered correctly in my experience. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
