Unix program on Linux question

Jason Clinton me at jasonclinton.com
Wed Dec 17 21:06:22 CST 2003


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Brian Densmore wrote:

| There are two possible interfaces that allow Unix binaries
| to run on Linux. The iBCS for Linux 2.2 kernels and the Linux ABI
| for 2.4 kernels. There does seem to be some limitation and some
| Unices require certain shared (proprietary) libraries to be available.
| It looks as though UnixWare may be ok though.

If this company is interested in making it more compatible, they could
statically link the libraries in to their binary and then there won't be
any question about it.

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