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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: Miguel Angel Sagreras <msagre@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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Subject: Re: Running ORACLE 7.2.2.4 on FreeBSD 2.2-SNAP
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> To get ORACLE 7.2.2.4 for SCO running on FreeBSD 2.2-961014-SNAP, I have to 
> modify two system call in the IBCS2 emulator. The first one was 
> the system call ulimit, it returns -1 on type conversion between 
> the 64 bits in the FreeBSD ffs and 32 bits type SCO fs causing  
> ORACLE exit.

I've submitted this fix to the code in -current.

> The second one was signal system call, I had to mask 
> IBCS2_..._MASK  in it, I haven't IBCS2 reference manual, to modify 
> the source to get the rigth code.

I need more time to look at this one.  Does anyone else have a manual
handy to check out what the code is supposed to do?  Is the supplied fix
correct?


Nate