Very valid point. Would be nice if all opensolaris-based distros could guarantee to run unmodified C binaries. There are quite a few ways to achive that.
Erast On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 11:22 -0700, John Plocher wrote: > Erast Benson and Joerg Schilling were discussing GNU/Solaris: > >>>GNU/Solaris distribution uses OpenSolaris kernel and runtime(libc). So, > >>>it runs any existing Solaris software without modifications. > > >>If you put them into /usr/bin, you will overwrite existing standard UNIX > >>tools > > This points out some large differences in people's perceptions of > "what is a Solaris app?" One perspective is a minimalist one, > concerned with syscalls in libc; another is broader and takes into > account the utilities and other commands that are part of the system. > Still others focus on middle ware and libraries, Java, web services, > etc... > > That is, "runs any existing Solaris Software without modifications" is > more difficult to do than it is to say. It is safe to say that the > ARC process at Sun spends much of its time ensuring that changes to > the system don't negatively impact this area. The Solaris Binary > Compatibility effort (see appcert(1)) grapples with this issue as well. > > Going forward with OpenSolaris distros, a simple expectation might be > > If it runs on Solaris AND it passes appcert(1), then > it should also run on any "Solaris Compatible" system. > (Noting that appcert focuses on shared libraries and > does not address system()'d or exec()'d utilities...) > > -John > > > > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
