Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:35:14 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: pura life CR <puralifecr@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emulation (was: Misc Questions.) Message-ID: <3E343872.9020108@potentialtech.com> References: <F66WZhKmcEntH4NnXoN0000e3f8@hotmail.com> <3E32DDB6.7040308@potentialtech.com> <20030126084812.GC1982@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 25 January 2003 at 13:55:50 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > >>pura life CR wrote: >> >>>What does this emulation consist on? Can I run linux and svr4 binaries?. >> >>It's not really emulation. In the case of Linux, it actually installs a >>RedHat kernel and uses it when the system calls differ from the native >>FreeBSD system calls. > > No, that's not correct. It installs Red Hat (I think) libraries, but > there's no way to run two kernels on a system. There is special > non-Linux code which implements the differences between FreeBSD and > Linux system calls. Well, I'm definately no expert on the Linuxulator, so thanks for the correction, Greg. I guess I was being very sloppy in my explaination. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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