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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-07-21 21:50:29 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-07-21 21:50:29 +0000
commitfd2612ba339b16aa1f039a9ffc9f4384233ac1df (patch)
tree9999d4c63ffccf106edd2c24fc2721db7f1c86f5
parent313ce3e57afd10a392c1b5c1b34aba9d618f2c00 (diff)
explain that /emul/svr4/dev cannot be a complete svr4 /dev dir
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/compat_svr4.810
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man8/compat_svr4.8 b/share/man/man8/compat_svr4.8
index 708b08473c0..56e3a617968 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/compat_svr4.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/compat_svr4.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: compat_svr4.8,v 1.3 1998/01/02 08:51:30 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: compat_svr4.8,v 1.4 1998/07/21 21:50:28 deraadt Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: compat_svr4.8,v 1.1 1996/07/06 17:14:50 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Christos Zoulas
@@ -115,6 +115,14 @@ Setup the configuration files and devices:
.Pp
An alternative method is to mount a whole svr4 partition in /emul/svr4
and then override with other mounts /emul/svr4/etc and /emul/svr4/dev.
+.Pp
+Clearly, you cannot use a complete SVR4
+.Pa /dev
+directory as
+.Pa /emul/svr4/dev ,
+because other device nodes, such as
+.Pa /dev/null ,
+need to be OpenBSD device nodes).
.Sh BUGS
Many system calls are still not emulated.