Subject: Re: Running DU apps on NetBSD...
To: Alpha BSD <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/06/1999 09:53:47
Peter Petrakis writes:
> Was NetBSD's kernel desgined to be like the DU kernel? I ask that
> because the later programs I tried were looking for a function from the
> kernel before it would even start. This is with DU JDK and acroreader.
> So if the kernel had thoses attributes it could run them. The apps die
> with this error upon execution (below). Thanks for your help.
>
> Peter P.
>
> get_reply_port: failed allocating new reply port. (os/kern) unknown
> error code (4e)
This error is indicative of a failed Mach system call. There's little
hope of emulating these properly (or at least somebody a lot smarter &
more motivated than I would need to do it..) Both the DU jdk and the
acroreader are linked to libmach, so there's little hope that they
will ever work. Read sys/compat/osf1/README.mach-traps.
Cheers,
Drew
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