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Date:      Thu, 23 Nov 1995 02:42:53 +0000 ()
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: iBCS2, socksys and all that jazz... (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199511230242.CAA27728@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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Something based on this would be good in the FAQ under "emulation"

Steven Wallace stands accused of saying:
> 
> What you need to do is set up /compat/ibcs2/dev to look like:
> 
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         9 Oct 15 22:20 X0R@ -> /dev/null
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         7 Oct 15 22:20 nfsd@ -> socksys
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  wheel         0 Oct 28 12:02 null
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         9 Oct 15 22:20 socksys@ -> /dev/null
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   41,   1 Oct 15 22:14 spx
> 
> You just need socksys to go to /dev/null to fake the open & close.
> The code in -current will handle the rest.  This is much cleaner than
> the way it was done before.  If you want the spx driver for a local
> socket X connection, define SPX_HACK when you compile the system.
> 
> Can this go into some FAQ or somewhere so I don't have to repeat it
> dozens of times?
> 
> Steven
> 
> 


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