Subject: Re: x.out Xenix 286 binary emulation?
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Scott Bartram <scottb@orionsoft.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/05/2001 12:22:17
Todd Vierling wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, David Maxwell wrote:
> 
> : I thought I had asked this before, but I can't find it in the
> : archives.
> :
> : Does anyone have any thoughts on support in binary emulation
> : for Xenix286 x.out binaries?
> 
> Isn't Xenix simply an offshoot of SIII (or was it SVR2)?  This should be
> pretty easy to do so long as the trap mechanism is there.  Xenix had a very
> minimal number of useful syscalls....

It's already there in the COMPAT_IBCS2 code although it may not be
100% complete. Back around the 1.3 days, I fixed a bug for someone
running some old Xenix binaries for which the source was lost.

scott