I sent the following to the LINUX-390 list. Thought y'all here might also be interested. (And forgive me, I know there is some overlap.)
I don't remember where Leland posted he experiences with z/OS (USS) binaries running on CMS (OpenVM). What it here? Because it's not all that relevant to Linux, except for the human interest ... er, uh ... academic interest of that story. PuTTY? We don't need no steenkin PuTTY! We CMSers! -- R; On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Rick Troth wrote: > Remember when Leland was compiling things on z/OS (USS) and then > copying the binaries to CMS (OpenVM)? They ran without further effort. > Very nice ... some collab work betweek POK and Endicott (or maybe > all LE magic? I don't know). > > We're in deep need of an SSH client for CMS. So I copied > /usr/bin/ssh from one of our z/OS systems and dropped it into OpenVM. > Lo and behold it does execute! Wants to fork, which is OFF by default. > SET FORK ON lets it do that, but it ABENDs immediately. Turns out > it is trying to seed the pseudo random number generator and punting > to a helper app which is causing crashing. (Another executable > copied from USS, but does not fly.) > > I tried to fudge it with a quickly hacked helper (spitting out > static seed content, just to get it running). This got SSH further, > but still not all the way there. > > I'm excited!! > We do need an SSH server for VM (CMS), > but we need an SSH client even more: need it for automation. > We also need SCP, which drives SSH under the covers > and no doubt plays the fork() game. [sigh] > > -- R; >
