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Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/man4.i386/svr4.4')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/svr4.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/svr4.4 index 359dd59..4d31568 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/svr4.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/svr4.4 @@ -141,7 +141,9 @@ or .Pa /compat/svr4/dev . Internally, the .Xr streams 4 -driver produces a socket descriptor and "tags" it with additional STREAMS +driver produces a socket descriptor and +.Dq tags +it with additional STREAMS state information before returning it to the client application. The .Nm @@ -177,9 +179,11 @@ archives containing pre-populated trees can be obtained from .Pp Extensive testing has only really been carried out with Solaris 2.x binaries, with anecdotal reports of limited success coming from testers with -early-revision SCO media. In theory, the basic SVR4 ABI should be constant +early-revision SCO media. +In theory, the basic SVR4 ABI should be constant across the set of vendors who produce SVR4 operating systems, but in -practice that's probably not the case. If necessary, future work can +practice that's probably not the case. +If necessary, future work can either implement additional .Xr kld 4 modules which produce functionality which contains OS-dependent @@ -187,7 +191,9 @@ departures from the behaviour which has been implemented in this ABI implementation. Alternatively, .Xr sysctl 8 -variables could set the "personality" the environment should present to +variables could set the +.Dq personality +the environment should present to client applications. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /sys/compat/svr4/syscalls.master -compact |
