On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> 
> : If you could write up a set of instructions (and warnings for things to
> : watch out for), I'm sure that it would be happily added to the web pages on
> : www.netbsd.org under the NetBSD/sparc section...
> 
> I'll do so sometime this weekend.
> 
> : Do you think the technique would work for Solaris, also?
> 
> Possibly, but because the SVR4 emulation is a little unstable yet (I've had
> kernel panics using it with Solaris 2.5.1 libs, but not with 2.4 libs), I
> won't yet try it.  The SunOS emulation is optimal, though, because Solaris
> and SunOS can both run the binaries--Solaris has an optimized SunOS
> emulation system, and NetBSD uses a BSD file layout (for applications that 
> are looking for particular files, like utmp).

There are also filesystem issues with 2.5.1.  2.5.1, and probably 2.5 and
2.6 have acl support in the filesystem.  I haven't quite figured out
what's going on but it seems that if you mount a filesystem read/write
under NetBSD, run some executables, boot 2.5.1, and fsck the filesystem,
anything that has been executed loses all permissions.

Then there are the streams issues, and the doorfs issues....

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