Re: linux-abi dead?

Mike Jagdis
2004-06-09T13:11:29Z

iBCS ceased when I decided that "enough" vendors were targetting
Linux as a Tier-1 platform and what was left was legacy proprietry
stuff that either worked or would be painful to fix. iBCS then
became linux-abi which ported to newer kernels and added UnixWare
support. I guess there just isn't enough SYSV stuff left to
keep any momentum behind linux-abi anymore either...

SCO stated a long time ago that they saw nothing in linux-abi
to worry them.

Which is kind of interesting because iBCS started life pretty
much as a way for Eric Youngdale to test his ELF loader code,
which subsequently moved into the main kernel.

(iBCS CVS is still available on http://sf.net/projects/ibcs
even if nothing else is. It doesn't go back quite to the
start - I think my initial import was 1993...)

Mike

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:15:26PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
> Hi,
> Wouldn't SCO be too happy to have a valid point for lawsuit ?
>
> Regards,
> Manu
>
> On Monday 07 Jun 2004 10:07 am, Steve Bergman wrote:
> > I just moved a server over to Fedora Core 2 (kernel 2.6.6) and
> > discovered that there is a need to run an old SCO binary.
> >
> > linux-abi.sf.net seems quite dead as a project. Is there any comparable
> > support for for foreign binaries in for the 2.6.x series?
> >
> > Since even the developer and user mailing lists of the linux-abi project
> > seem quite dead, this seems an appropriate place to ask.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steve Bergman
> >
> >
> >
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