Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Path: gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net! pipex!uknet!reading!spulewis From: spule...@reading.ac.uk (Andrew Lewis) Subject: SCO Binaries under Linux Message-ID: <spulewis.761011872@reading> Sender: n...@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk Nntp-Posting-Host: suma3 Organization: University of Reading Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 00:11:12 GMT Lines: 5 I've been seeing messages hinting at SCO binary compatability under Linux. Does anyone have an idea when such will be implimented, as it will be VERY useful. Andy
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Path: gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news2.cac.psu.edu! news.pop.psu.edu!ra!tantalus.nrl.navy.mil!eric From: e...@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: SCO Binaries under Linux Message-ID: <CL548q.6M7@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Sender: use...@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Laboratory References: <spulewis.761011872@reading> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 02:00:25 GMT Lines: 25 In article <spulewis.761011872@reading> spule...@reading.ac.uk (Andrew Lewis) writes: >I've been seeing messages hinting at SCO binary compatability under Linux. Does >anyone have an idea when such will be implimented, as it will be VERY useful. If you join the IBCS2 channel, you can do it now, more or less. People are still working on some of the syscalls, but things are shaping up nicely. I do not know exactly which binaries run right now, since I work with SVr4/ELF binaries. A runtime shared library is under development which can be compiled to work with either COFF or ELF binaries. A SVr4 compatible dynamic linker is present in the ELF version, so that you can more or less drop SVr4 binaries onto your system and run them. While the above may sound encouraging, I do not want to leave people with the impression that everything works, and we are just sitting on it. There are still bugs (undoubtably quite a few that we do not even know about yet). No specific promises as to when the ibcs2 module will appear in the distribution kernel - not till after 1.0 in any case. -Eric -- "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."