Quoting Mark Willey,

> Hi.  I'm trying to install Matlab (a popular math program) for Linux on my
> NetBSD box.  Unfortunately, it dies with a "Bad system call" message.

This executable is very probably linked with a recent Linux C-library,
which contains some system calls that were only recently added to Linux.
NetBSD-1.1 does not have them yet; -current does however.

If you incorporate the changes I made december 18th, it should run fine.
If it doesn't, bug me about it :-)

- Frank