[powerpc-discuss] Fork+exec works

2008-02-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
> Guy Shaw wrote: > > > So, next in the Plan B sequence is Bourne Shell with > > libc-lite. I may still do something with sash, > > Does this include gettext and similar? > > You may need to comment out the localization support > but this cannot be too much work. > > J?rg Why don't you ju

[powerpc-discuss] Fork+exec works

2008-02-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Guy Shaw wrote: > So, next in the Plan B sequence is Bourne Shell with > libc-lite. I may still do something with sash, Does this include gettext and similar? You may need to comment out the localization support but this cannot be too much work. J?rg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-ber

[powerpc-discuss] Fork+exec works

2008-02-08 Thread Guy Shaw
Martin Bochnig wrote: > >> Guy Shaw wrote: >> >>> So, next in the Plan B sequence is Bourne Shell with >>> libc-lite. I may still do something with sash >> >> Does this include gettext and similar? >> >> You may need to comment out the localization support >> but this cannot be too much work. >>

[powerpc-discuss] Fork+exec works

2008-02-08 Thread Guy Shaw
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Guy Shaw wrote: > >> So, next in the Plan B sequence is Bourne Shell with >> libc-lite. I may still do something with sash, > > > Does this include gettext and similar? > > You may need to comment out the localization support > but this cannot be too much work. I don't

[powerpc-discuss] PMDB documentation

2008-02-08 Thread Guy Shaw
The Poor Man's DeBugger, PMDB, is a part of Solaris/PPC that is new, and specific to PowerPC. I have no plans to try to get Sun engineers to adopt PMDB for Sparc and x86. :-) We are stuck with it. Sorry. So, it is up to me to document it. As part of preparation for producing some sort of man

[powerpc-discuss] Fork+exec works

2008-02-08 Thread Guy Shaw
When I said that I had not looked into lwp_pcb_exit(), I meant it. I got back to it, and lwp_pcb_exit() is a relatively new function, but is really only meaningful on Sparc, so far. It is an empty function on x86. I just introduced it to Solaris/PPC as an empty function, as well. I ran /sbin/t

[powerpc-discuss] Adding a system call

2008-02-08 Thread Guy Shaw
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Guy Shaw wrote: > >> I mentioned that I recently added the system call, kprintf(). > > > Why? > What is the reson for such a syscall? During early bringup, especially before rtld+libc gets debugged and fully initialized, it is about the _only_ practical way to get any in