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From: kiers@original.xs4all.nl (Bert Kiers)
Subject: [TUHS] Multiple system call sets
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:13:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040603161336.GF9509@janeway.boppelans.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wqz1xkwiqyf.wl@hurt.theclones.net>

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:47:20AM -0400, dayton at brooklyn.cuny.edu wrote:

> I recollect that Pyramid Technology machines in the 80's allowed users
> and/or processes to select whether to use BSD or SYSV system call
> semantics.  Also, FreeBSD supports Linux system calls and SYSV in
> emulation.
> 
> Does anyone know a good location (book, article, website) that discusses
> this.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/irix.html is a serie of eight
articles about how NetBSD supports Irix system calls.

-- 
Bert Kiers, !MCSE && 0xFF, frique d'ordinateur


      reply	other threads:[~2004-06-03 16:13 UTC|newest]

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2004-06-03 15:47 dayton
2004-06-03 16:13 ` Bert Kiers [this message]

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