Subject: Re: compat_solaris
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/07/2005 08:28:52
On Feb 6, 11:50pm, macallan18@earthlink.net (Michael) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: compat_solaris

|   12223 ftp      CALL  context(0,0xffffbf20)
|   12223 ftp      RET   context 0, 4294950688/0xffffbf20
|   12223 ftp      PSIG  SIGSEGV SIG_DFL
|   12223 ftp      NAMI  "ftp.core"
| 
| Hmm, apparently it doesn't like NetBSD's passwd file... I'll check if 
| Solaris uses a different format and make up some fake.

Also setcontext seems to be broken, otherwise you'd get a proper error
and exit.

| Hmm, I'll try running Opera from Solaris with its display on the NetBSD 
| box, but I'm pretty sure it will just work - the Xserver I'm running is 
| stock XFree86 4.0 compiled straight from xsrc a month ago or so. To me 
| it looks like something gets lost on the way from xlib to the Xserver.
| 
but betweeen xlib and the xserver sits the x protocol which is transmitted
by sockets. If that gets corrupted, then you get immediately an error.

christos