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To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
Subject: Re: Binary emulations 
Cc: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 02:00:10 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.970115201333.190C-100000@hamby1> Jake Hamby writes:
: We already have the ELF binary support.  The hardest part will be adding
: all the syscall support for the SVR4 API, and providing the appropriate
: shared libraries.  I suggest you look at Linux's IBCS2 emulator, which
: supports Solaris/x86, SCO, and XENIX reasonably well. 

Does the SYSV4 emulator in NetBSD or OpenBSD help at all here?

Warner