Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!UTKCS2.CS.UTK.EDU!moore From: moore@UTKCS2.CS.UTK.EDU (Keith Moore) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: RE: getting GNU running on AIX Message-ID: <8706071643.360@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 16:43:26 EDT Article-I.D.: utkcs2.8706071643.360 Posted: Sun Jun 7 16:43:26 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 04:23:34 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 18 In article <517@haddock.UUCP>, Karl Heuer writes: >(Generally, SIGKILL is how the kernel handles an unrunnable file if it's too >late to return to the previous image (the one that called exec()). I've seen >this happen when the a.out format was incorrect, for example.) > >I plan to make an unexec() that will work on AIX. I'd appreciate any advice >above and beyond what I can find in "man a.out". Also, I'll gladly accept any >hints about other pitfalls that await me in building AIX emacs. I also tried to get a version of unexec to work, but tired of searching through the documentation to find the right information. (That's what happens when a vendor tries to make the Unix manuals more user- friendly). I eventually gave up and defined CANNOT_DUMP. Thus AIX killed a program produced by its own linker. Keith Moore Internet: moore@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu Universtiy of Tennessee CS Dept. CSnet: moore@tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee BITNET: moore@utkcs1