Re: Missing compat_43 stuff for netbsd32?

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

Eduardo Horvath <eeh%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, Paul Goyette wrote:
>
>> While working on the compat code, I noticed that there are a few old
>> syscalls which are defined in syc/compat/netbsd323/syscalls.master
>> with a type of COMPAT_43, yet there does not exist any compat_netbsd32
>> implementation as far as I can see...
>> 
>> 	#64	ogetpagesize
>> 	#84	owait
>> 	#89	ogetdtablesize
>> 	#108	osigvec
>> 	#142	ogethostid (interestingly, there _is_ an implementation
>> 			for osethostid!)
>> 	#149	oquota
>> 
>> Does any of this really matter?  Should we attempt to implement them?
>
> I believe COMPAT_43 is not NetBSD 4.3 it's BSD 4.3.  Anybody have any old 
> BSD 4.3 80386 binaries they still run?  Did BSD 4.3 run on an 80386?  Did 
> the 80386 even exist when Berkeley published BSD 4.3?
>
> It's probably only useful for running ancient SunOS 4.x binaries, maybe 
> Ultrix, Irix or OSF-1 depending on how closely they followed BSD 4.3.
>
> Eduardo


It has been a very long time since I did this, and I may not remember
correctly, but I believe that COMPAT_43 is needed on NetBSD/i386 to run
BSDI binaries.  I remember using the BSDI Netscape 3.x binary back in
the day and I think it was required.



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