From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Nov 22 18:44:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA04894 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 18:44:44 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA04888 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 18:44:33 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id CAA27728 for doc@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 02:42:53 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511230242.CAA27728@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: iBCS2, socksys and all that jazz... (fwd) To: doc@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 02:42:53 +0000 () MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1274 Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[