Subject: Re: Any changes to COMPAT_OSF1 since 1.5?
To: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/12/2001 23:30:23
"Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> writes:

> Have there been any changes to DUNIX emulation since 1.5? I've got
> "Digital UNIX V4.0E  (Rev. 1091); Wed Oct  6 16:40:55 EDT 1999",
> NetBSD/alpha 1.5, and I'm trying to run netscape. 

Netscape 4.7 has mostly worked for me through the 1.5 cycle and up
until very recently in -current (and that problem is being worked on).

>   4112 real-netscape CALL  classcntl(0x8,0x22,0x1fffff0d0,0)
>   4112 real-netscape RET   classcntl -1 errno 78 Function not implemented
>   4112 real-netscape CALL  getuid
>   4112 real-netscape RET   getuid 100/0x64
>   4112 real-netscape CALL  stat(0x248009b0,0x1ffffd3f8)
>   4112 real-netscape NAMI  "/emul/osf1/usr/sbin/class_daemon"
>   4112 real-netscape NAMI  "/emul/osf1"
>   4112 real-netscape NAMI  "/emul/osf1/usr/sbin/class_daemon"
>   4112 real-netscape RET   stat 0
>   4112 real-netscape CALL  #201 (unimplemented msgget)
>   4112 real-netscape PSIG  SIGSYS SIG_DFL
> 
> Should I send-pr this?

Is it dying immediately at startup, or later when you try to do
something in particular? I find that javascript-laden sites
occasionally cause netscape to trip over SIGSYS, but not with that
particular system call.

        - Nathan