Subject: Re: compat-sunos on NetBSD/sparc
To: David S. Miller <davem@caip.rutgers.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/25/1995 23:24:15
On Mon, 25 Sep 1995 23:32:42 -0400
"David S. Miller" <davem@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> To run dynamically linked SunOS executables you will need to place the
> .so libraries in the place that the executables expect them to be,
> most likely /usr/lib. I believe this plus adding COMPAT_SUNOS to the
> kernel config should do the necessary magic.
NetBSD's SunOS compat now understands `/emul/sunos' ... a shadow root.
namei() will check for files relative to this `root' first. So, you can
place libs, ld.so, etc. in `/emul/sunos/usr/lib' to keep them out of the
way. The compat_sunos(8) manual page has been updated to reflect this.
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