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- From: rgp@mpd.tandem.com (Ramon Pantin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: SVR4 on RS/6000 (was Re: AIX malloc and fault tolerance)
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 05:43:44 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.135156.9166@medtron.medtronic.com> <1992Sep4.044125.861@portal.hq.videocart.com> <1992Sep10.105731.17287@cadlab.sublink.org>
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- In article <1992Sep10.105731.17287@cadlab.sublink.org> martelli@cadlab.sublink.org (Alex Martelli) writes:
- >
- >I don't have any other important reason for AIX-hating, but the horrendously
- >bogous malloc() semantics may be enough...
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- I've had the same frustrations with the malloc/SIGKILL problem,
- BSD tty code and other AIXisms.
-
- Anybody knows about a port of SVR4 that IBM had contracted out
- to one of the UNIX/386 houses? I remember reading this about a year
- ago in some UNIX magazine (maybe on a "Unix Today"). I believe
- that this was a special product to be used only for large bids
- that explictly asked for SVR4.
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- Is there any interest out there for a straight port of SVR4 to the
- RS/6000? Anybody knows if this is really happening? Any other
- details?
-
- I was curious what would be the minimal requirements for such a product.
- My requirements would be:
- - Binary compatible with AIX 3.X applications. Not sure how
- the SVR4 shared objects and the AIX shared library models
- match.
- - Support for most IBM provided hardware (tough I don't
- care about diskless workstations in particular).
- - Good support.
-
- My non-requirements would be:
- - No compatibility with kernel extensions or device drivers.
- - No disk space compatibility, i.e. JFS filesystems or logical
- volumes would be useless, reformating and a different filesystem
- would be required (UFS maybe VXFS).
-
- What would be your requirements?
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