svn commit: r42862 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction

[Peter Wemm]

On 10/6/13 2:37 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 04:46:29PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 04:16:23AM +0000, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>>> Author: eadler
>>>> Date: Sun Oct  6 04:16:22 2013
>>>> New Revision: 42862
>>>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42862
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>>   We have not supported running SCO binaries since 1997/1999.
>>> I have no idea why do you think that we do not 'support' running SCO
>>> binaries.  We do have imgact_coff.ko and ibcs2.ko, which get their
>>> deservable stream of bug reports when changes in syscall layer or
>>> VM break them.
>>
>> Peter is giving me conflicting information and I lack access to any
>> SCO binaries to test.  Can you both more fully explain what
>> functionality exists and what functionality does not?
> 
> I cannot explain what functionality does not exist.
> SCO 3.2.4 COFF binaries work, I have local copy of the kermit which
> I use to test, or rather, sanity checking, the ABI layer.
> 

I think the wording got a little mixed up.  What I actually said was
*compiled* since 1997ish and even mentioned to Eitan that openserver 3.2v4
was about the last set of sco binaries we could run.  We don't run
openserver 5, nor the unixware binaries.

It would probably be best described as "Legacy SCO binaries" and leave it at
that.

BTW; I was wrong about the dates.. it was the 1995 release that was the cut
off, not 1997/1999.  "Openserver 5" (released in 1995) switched to an elf
executable format and a dynamic syscall numbering system.

-- 
Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV


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