Subject: Re: Software porting issues, or "Does anyone still use 0.9a?"
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/26/1995 19:19:08
> Can't you boot a sparcstation from a /netbsd kernel and run multiuser
> with all SunOS 4.1.x binaries? If so the author of "lsof" could test
> on that without too much trouble.
Maaaaybe. mount(8)/umount(8) might break; I'm not sure. trace(1)
definitely will not work. There are doubtless plenty of others that
won't work for various reasons. The SunOS emulation is good, but far
from perfect - heck, I've found one piece of software that breaks not
because the SunOS emulation is imperfect but rather because of
slow-start TCP in the kernel!
der Mouse
mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu