IBCS2 regression in FreeBSD 5??

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Oct 11), Paul Mather said:
> Does anyone know whether the IBCS2 emulation functionality regressed
> going from FreeBSD 4 to FreeBSD 5?  I ask because I have a
> statically-linked SCO binary that works under FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE but
> not under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10 (or a version of 5.1-CURRENT).
> 
> I have ibcs2 and coff modules, and know that IBCS2 at least partially
> works.  For example, I can run the "hello_world" example program in
> /usr/share/examples/ibcs2 as well as some others.  But, the program in
> question exits immediately with "Abort".  Here's what I get when
> running the program using ktrace on 5.1:
> 
>  40019 ktrace   RET   ktrace 0
>  40019 ktrace   CALL  execve(0xbfbffc7b,0xbfbffb88,0xbfbffb94)
>  40019 ktrace   NAMI  "/usr/adsm/dsmc"

And I guess this is a very belated "me too" :)  I get the same on
5.2-RELEASE and -current.

Paul, did you ever figure out the cause?

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	Dan Nelson
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