From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 16 23:38:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA15894 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:38:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamby1.lightside.net (hamby1.lightside.net [207.67.176.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA15887 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:37:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jehamby@localhost) by hamby1.lightside.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with SMTP id XAA00345; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:37:41 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: hamby1.lightside.net: jehamby owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:37:40 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby X-Sender: jehamby@hamby1 To: Warner Losh cc: Philippe Regnauld , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binary emulations In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yes, the SVR4 emulator in NetBSD/OpenBSD would be an excellent starting point for a FreeBSD port. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Jake Hamby| Ask me about Unix, FreeBSD, Solaris, The Tick, BeOS, or NT, eh? | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "This space intentionally left blank." On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > In message 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 > >