the semantics in that the returned filename to use is now a kernel
pointer rather than a user space pointer. This required changing the
arguments to the CHECKALT*() macros some and changing the various system
calls that used pathnames to use the kern_foo() functions that can accept
kernel space filename pointers instead of calling the system call
directly.
- Use kern_open(), kern_stat(), kern_lstat(), kern_fstat(), kern_access(),
kern_truncate(), kern_pathconf(), kern_execve(), kern_select(),
kern_setitimer(), kern_getitimer(), kern_statfs(), and kern_fstatfs().
Silence on: alpha@
sys/modules Makefile after completing a buildworld.
History:
The bulk of this code was obtained from NetBSD approximately one year
ago (I have taken care to preserve the original NetBSD copyrights and
I thank the authors for their work.) At that time, the OSF/1 code was
what was left over from their initial bootstrapping off of OSF/1 and
did not provide support for executing shared binaries.
I have independently added support for shared libraries, and support
for some of the more obscure system calls. This code has been
available for testing and comment since January of 1999 and running on
production machines here at Duke since April.
Known working applications include:
- Netscape (all versions I've tried)
- Mathematica 3.0.2
- Splus 3.4
- ArcInfo 7.1
- Matlab (version unknown)
- SimOS
- Atom instrumented binaries (built on a real OSF/1 system)
Applications which are known not to work:
- All applications linking to libmach
- Adobe Acrobat (uses libmach)
This has been tested with applications running against shared
libraries from OSF/1 (aka Tru64) 4.0D and 4.0F.
Reviewed by: marcel, obrien
BDE-lint by: obrien
Agreed in principal to by: msmith
