Re: Solaris

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
6 Oct 1997 18:03:44 GMT

Followup to: <m0xI6uU-0005FiC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > binaries. According to SunSoft, there are 2500 applications ported to
> > Solaris Intel (and 10000 applications are ported to Solaris Sparc) so
> > there is some advantage to emulating Solaris (probably more advantage of
> > Solaris emulation than SCO emulation at this point).
>
> See the iBCS stuff. Solaris intel is iBCS based with ELF binaries
>

Actually, the word on linux-ibcs2 is that it is *not* iBCS compliant,
although it possibly might be using the same syscall mechanism.

-hpa

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