On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 09:29 -1000, Richard Henderson wrote: > On 2/16/23 09:02, David Woodhouse wrote: > > It wouldn't be beyond the wit of man to extend qemu-user to support the > > similar personality variations for SCO/Solaris/etc. using that as a > > guide. > > Not beyond wit but perhaps beyond patience. > > It would certainly be possible to emulate the "easy middle" of one POSIX > guest on a > different POSIX host. But the dusty corners are going to get in the way, > where we > currently rely on guest and host having identical semantics, and pass the > system call > through to the host. > > It's a big job.
True, but the existing iBCS / linux-abi kernel patches should highlight a lot of those dusty corners.
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