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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: Andrew on Solaris 2.1
- Message-ID: <16048@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:02:11 GMT
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >Has anyone done any work on porting Andrew to Solaris 2.1?
-
- Has anyone done any work on porting ATK to *any* SVR4-derived UNIX? If
- so, and if there's more than one place where it's being done, perhaps
- the people doing it should get together on that (I can easily imagine
- person A porting it to some PClone running SVR4-for-i386, and person B
- porting it to Solaris 2.x, and person A and person B having no idea that
- the other's doing it).
-
- Note that the right way to do the dynamic linking stuff for SVR4 is
- probably to grab the SunOS 4.1[.x] version of the dynamic linking code
- and proceeding from there (the "dlopen()"/"dlsym()"/etc. interface was
- actually invented by AT&T, although they never released any
- implementation until SVR4; Sun just used AT&T's interface for SunOS
- 4.1[.x]), rather than trying to teach the "do it yourself" code about
- ELF (the main reason I did the version that used "dlopen()" and company
- was to *keep* people from trying to teach the do-it-yourself version
- about ELF).
-
- You will probably also want to change the pseudo-tty handling code in
- "typescript" and "tm" to use SVR4-style pseudo-ttys.
-