Re: Nostalgia: System V Release 2 filesystem

From: Jim Roland (jim@roland.net)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 02:24:03 EST


How?

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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Edgar Toernig wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 04:54:17 +0200
> From: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
> To: Jim Roland <jim@roland.net>
> Cc: Michal Jaegermann <michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca>,
     linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Nostalgia: System V Release 2 filesystem
>
> Jim Roland wrote:
> > I was able to get the program to run after duplicating the environment
> > variables, but...got an iBCS error right away:
> > [...]
> > Interactive UNIX
> >
> > Loading the software, please wait ...
> > iBCS: ioctl(3, 6b00[..k], 0xbffff9a6) unsupported
> > SYSTEM ERROR : ioctl(): Invalid argument
> >
> > At this point, software goes back to a command prompt with black on black
> > text (can't see what you type, just the prompt with a cursor that doesn't
> > move--shell not locked up).
>
> Could be the GETFKEY ioctl (GETFKEY=6b00, SETFKEY=6b01). You have to
> tweak iBCS to give reasonable replies.
>
> Ciao, ET.
>

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