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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:52:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: libkse*.a in 7.0
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0712110845370.1059@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071211112150.GA1214@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <20071128211022.GA74762@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20071128213947.Q7555@fledge.watson.org> <20071210192533.GA15728@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20071210220854.07e02f1f@deskjail> <20071210223838.GB16598@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20071211080216.pb3b95teoggko00o@webmail.leidinger.net> <20071211112150.GA1214@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Kostik Belousov wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:02:16AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> I work in the office of SUN in Luxembourg, and one of our ideas for a
>> client was to run a Solaris 8/9 in a zone of a Solaris 10 as a
>> replacement for machines with Solaris 8/9. As we have a service
>> contract with our client, we have to take some business constraints
>> into account. And one of those business constraints is that Solaris
>> 8/9 in a zone of Solaris 10 is not supported, as the kernel interface
>> (syscalls) changed in an incompatible way.
> 
> Look at the project Etude.

The syscalls are only exposed in an ABI compliant way through the
libraries, which is what we should do also.  But I think if you
were to plop the Solaris 10 libraries (at least the symbol-versioned
ones) over the Solaris 8/9 image, it might have a chance of working
for you.  Hmm, unless the Sun private symbols in Solaris 8/9 were
not versioned and kept as compatible versions in Solaris 10.
It might be interesting to try it and see what happens ;-)

-- 
DE



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