Subject: Re: FreeBSD ELF emulation
To: None <feico@pasta.cs.uit.no>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/09/1999 14:19:15
	Just a side question on the linux front - what does it require
	form linux /proc that NetBSD proc does not provide?

		David/absolute

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Feico Dillema wrote:

> A friend of mine is considering ordering a commercial software package
> that is available for linux and freebsd, but is also considering
> switching OS from FreeBSD to NetBSD. So we tried a test version of this
> package under NetBSD hoping it would run under either NetBSD's linux
> or freebsd binary emulation. The linux binary fails as it depends on
> the linux /proc filesystem. The freebsd binary is an ELF binary which
> is AFAICS not supported in NetBSD at the moment.
>