Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:34:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:33:54 -0500 Received: from mailhst2.its.tudelft.nl ([130.161.34.250]:23045 "EHLO mailhst2.its.tudelft.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:33:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:55:00 +0100 From: Erik Mouw To: Gregory Stark Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: DOS vm86 not working? Message-ID: <20001229135500.M22081@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> In-Reply-To: <87u27prmdq.fsf@localhost.freelotto.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <87u27prmdq.fsf@localhost.freelotto.com>; from gsstark@mit.edu on Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:16:49AM -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:16:49AM -0500, Gregory Stark wrote: > I just tried dosemu again after upgrading to 2.4.0pre11, and it ran my program > about halfway and then started spinning with strace reporting: > > vm86(0x1, 0x811f540, 0xa6, 0xfff8fff1, 0x81d30a4) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) > vm86(0x1, 0x811f540, 0xa6, 0xfff8fff1, 0x81d30a4) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) > vm86(0x1, 0x811f540, 0xa6, 0xfff8fff1, 0x81d30a4) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) > > I don't see any reason in the source why vm86 would report ENOSYS except if > the system call simply wasn't present. I'm not really familiar with this > source though so I could be missing something. Is there something wrong with > the vm86 code and it's just always returning ENOSYS now? > > I haven't tried this program in 2.2 yet, I'll have to do that next time I get > a chance to reboot. What version of dosemu are you using? When running the latest kernel releases you really need a development version of dosemu. I didn't have any problem running dosesemu-1.1.1 on 2.4.0-test11. Check out http://www.dosemu.org/ for the latest release. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/