Re: libc port for AIX

["Kamal R Prasad" <kamalrp at networkprograms dot com>]

Er -the reason why I wanted  a glibc port is to mess around with the 
interface to the syscall table if that is what gets used internally I mean 
struct user->svc_table[]; There are some public domain examples of doing so 
as in:-
http://www.xfocus.org/documents/200408/5.html

Wouldn't the kernel panic if we passed an invalid/unoccupied entry into 
r2(the syscall no.) and did an svca? What protection does AIX offer in this 
regard?

thanks
-kamal

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Brown" <bmark@us.ibm.com>
To: "Kamal R Prasad" <kamalrp@networkprograms.com>
Cc: <libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: libc port for AIX


> <kamalrp@networkprograms.com> wrote:
> > Im interested in getting hold of a glibc port on AIX.
> > Can someone tell me if this has been done/can ne done?
>
> I do not believe that there is a glibc port to AIX available.
> AIX has an "unusual" set of shared library and linker-loader mechanisms,
> making such a port difficult to do and maintain.
>
> IBM has ported many GNU/FSF and other open source tools to AIX,
> available from here:
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/
>
> -------------------
> Mark Brown
> bmark@us.ibm.com 


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