From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Dec 5 13:43:05 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA07957 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 13:43:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co ([168.176.37.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA07942 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 13:42:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.41]) by apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id QAA06115; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 16:35:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <32A7693D.42F2@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 16:30:53 -0800 From: "Pedro Giffuni S." Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de CC: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of windows, dos and svr4 emulation References: <9612050912.AA20676@wavehh.hanse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Martin Cracauer wrote: > > >When netbsd's svr4 emulation will be ported to FreeBSD? > > Well, what's the application you want it for? > How about WABI for SolarisX86 (it´s available isn´t it)? but there´s also a Linux version now...would have to find out which is cheaper, but Linux´s version would, almost surely, always be better supported by FreeBSD. Does this emulation include Unixware? > > The only real issue is keeping Linux ELF binaries and Solaris Binaries > (with are always ELF) different. NetBSD has the same problem. Most > folks ended up compiling only one of Linux ELF *or* SVR4 into their > kernels. > > In a word: Nothing I want to beat my head against. > FreeBSD distinguishes between Linux´s ELF and fbsd´s ELF (never have seen one of those though) but I don´t know if there´s an additional tag in FBSD´s ELF´s for that purpose. I always run a.out´s (I use 2.1.5), is there any particular advantage in using ELF? Pedro. > Martin > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Martin_Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de http://cracauer.cons.org Fax.: +4940 5228536 > "As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't ex- > plain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway"- Calvin