IRIX Multithreading Emulation on NetBSD 18
GrosBill writes "Onlamp publishes one more paper about IRIX binary
compatibility implementation on NetBSD. This time,
this is about emulating IRIX native multithreading
capabilities on NetBSD, which is quite interesting
since NetBSD does not support native multithreading
for its native binaries yet.
The paper also covers some reverse engineering
tricks: how to use a debugger to discover everything about IRIX multithreading."
Give them some credit (Score:4, Insightful)
They figured out a way to make a feature work on a platform that doesn't support that feature. That's called innovation, and not in the terms that Microsoft would use it.
Furthermore, since this has been reverse engineered, they might be able to work this into NetBSD, thus fixing the problem of NetBSD not supporting multi-threading. I say, "congratulations."
Hack. (Score:1)