I was an "advisor" on this project. The idea was to shim ld.so to replace
certain symbols, with a little bit of wrapper to match to illumos symbols. We
believed that there were a substantial number of programs that could be fixed
to operate this way. Of course programs making direct syscalls (bad practice!)
would be busted, but things that just relied on libc might be made to work.
There are of course questions about the 18-gazillion other libraries. GUI
libraries would probably work fine, since they should have the same symbols and
calling conventions on illumos. But callers of other lower level libraries
might be more difficult. The same approach could be used for those libraries,
but identification of them all was thought to be a non-trivial effort.
- Garrett
On Mar 28, 2013, at 1:03 AM, Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> wrote:
> I noticed the project is not updated since 2 years, I'll have a look if it
> has something interesting.
> It would be interesting for cases where you can't run lx zones but you need
> to run closed source
> linux binaries.
>
> Gabriele.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Da: Jerry Kemp <[email protected]>
> A: [email protected]
> Data: 28 marzo 2013 0.04.15 CET
> Oggetto: Re: [discuss] Linux binray compatibility
>
> thank you, you are correct.
>
> Thunderbird was dropping the trailing "-" dash.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> On 03/27/13 11:35 AM, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:30:25AM -0500, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> >> Your link came up as a 404 message.
> >>
> >> Can you please recheck your link and repost?
> >
> > Make sure to copy the trailing - as well.
> >
> > Jeff.
> >
> >> Jerry
> >>
> >>
> >> On 03/27/13 10:44 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> >>> Hi, I just found this:
> >>> https://github.com/keremet/Illumos--Linux-binary-support-without-zones-
> >>> Is this viable??
> >>> Gabriele.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>
>
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