Subject: Re: "real" OpenBSD compat - how hard would it be?
To: Urban Boquist <boquist@crt.se>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/19/2003 18:05:50
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 08:36 AM, Urban Boquist wrote:
> So, it seems that the days when you could just take any OpenBSD (i386)
> binary and run it on NetBSD (i386) and it would Just Work are
> definitely over.
>
> Does anyone have any idea on how much work a real kernel level
> compat/openbsd would be?
Hard, because OpenBSD, in their infinite wisdom, decided to not change
their a.out magic number when they began to diverge. There is no way
to tell an OpenBSD a.out binary from a NetBSD a.out binary.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>