[src/netbsd-1-4]: src/share/man/man8 Pull up rev. 1.14; authorized by cjs.

[kleink <kleink%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/58c30109b586
branches:  netbsd-1-4
changeset: 468367:58c30109b586
user:      kleink <kleink%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Mon Apr 19 15:02:34 1999 +0000

description:
Pull up rev. 1.14; authorized by cjs.

diffstat:

 share/man/man8/compat_svr4.8 |  13 +++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diffs (34 lines):

diff -r 8265a1fb013d -r 58c30109b586 share/man/man8/compat_svr4.8
--- a/share/man/man8/compat_svr4.8      Mon Apr 19 14:57:31 1999 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man8/compat_svr4.8      Mon Apr 19 15:02:34 1999 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: compat_svr4.8,v 1.13 1999/03/17 20:31:19 garbled Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: compat_svr4.8,v 1.13.2.1 1999/04/19 15:02:34 kleink Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1996 Christos Zoulas
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"    Stolen from compat_linux.8,v 1.2 1995/10/16 20:17:59 fvdl 
 .\"
-.Dd July 6, 1996
+.Dd April 19, 1999
 .Dt COMPAT_SVR4 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -146,6 +146,15 @@
 .br
 .It (me@netbsd) cd /emul/svr4/dev; sh SVR4_MAKEDEV all
 .El
+.Pp
+As the major number allocated for emulation of SVR4 devices may vary between
+.Nx
+platforms, the SVR4_MAKEDEV script utilizes the
+.Xr uname 1
+command to determine the architecture the devices nodes are being created for;
+this can be overridden by setting the
+.Ev MACHINE
+environment variable accordingly.
 .El
 .Pp
 An alternative method is to mount a whole SVR4 partition in /emul/svr4