Re: Informix & BSDI ?

In article <CCH8o4.IJn@candle.uucp> root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian) writes: >Colonel Panic (aland@informix.com) wrote: >: I seriously doubt it -- we don't have a BSDI port, and I don't think BSDI >: will run any of the other ports reliably. > >The 1.1 version of BSD/386 should run SCO/COFF binaries reliably. It is >due out in Sept/Oct of this year. Binary compatibility, even if done properly, isn't the only issue, unfortunately. Aspects of the runtime environment are factors as well. For example, I-NET / I-STAR are set up to do password verification using SCO's specific security mechanisms (bigcrypt() et al), and therefore would not run on a non-SCO environment, binary compatible or not. (Now, you and I know this could have been implemented in a runtime-flexible way, but I couldn't convice the powers that be that having a generic SVR3.2 port that would be compatible across SCO/ISC/AT&T was highly worthwhile...) >Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com "We -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid ... plundering, for our own convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for generatiosn to come." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower