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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!fsa.ca!deraadt From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: NetBSd vs SunOS ? Date: 28 Oct 1994 16:45:15 GMT Organization: little lizard city Lines: 20 Message-ID: <DERAADT.94Oct28104515@newt.fsa.ca> References: <MUEPF.94Oct25122857@iff162.iff.kfa-juelich.de> <mrg.783229820@dynamo> <CyE06J.E5p@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca In-reply-to: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk's message of Fri, 28 Oct 1994 14:27:55 GMT In article <CyE06J.E5p@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: In article <mrg.783229820@dynamo> mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green) writes: >yup. compat_sunos works rather well -- even things like openwin >and R5 work. I tried R6 and xterm died with a message about being unable to open any ptys. Has anyone else seen this? Besides the obvious failure of any SunOS program using libkvm, this is another weakness in the COMPAT_SUNOS code. SunOS 4.1, to run old 4.0 and 3.x binaries, had rather strange setsid/setpgrp semantics (Hi Larry!) This behaviour is not emulated properly, as a result a few things don't work, ie. xterm. (Another example: SIOCGIFCONF is not emulated properly yet). That said, there is a native X11R6 build for NetBSD/sparc, and it should be available in a directory near where you found the OS binaries.. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@fsa.ca