Re: running DEC binaries

[Matti Aarnio <matti aarnio sonera fi>]

On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 12:30:10PM -0400, James Peret wrote:
> I am trying to run a Dec native binary on alphalinux.  i get the error
> message
>   getadr:  ioctl SIOCGIFCONF: Invalid argument
>   Couldn't locate your Ethernet device
>   ERROR: could not connect to NameServer.
> i am running RH 5.2 with the 2.2.7 kernel. i have all the dec libraries,
....

   SIOCGIFCONF at DEC UNIX is: 0xc0106914
   SIOCGIFCONF at Linux is:    0x00008912

At Linux for SPARC there is a compability layer for these, but
no such exist for Alpha.  You could try to make it.

Doing an strace might tell, if I am mistaken, but also, what
file type that queried file descriptor is.  (Not every file-
descriptor can do SIOCGIFCONF.)

> thanks  
> -red

/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>