Re: old pf apps

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++bitch.reading.sgi.com)
Sat, 23 Nov 1996 14:50:41 +0000

Yes,.

There's a script produced 6 months ago which modifies the
executable to work with xfs. Here's what Don Hatch had to
say about it way back then.

Don mentions 2.1 execs but this is a mistake, it should read 1.2.
The name of the script may also have changed to reflect this.

Cheers,
Angus.

> This is a problem with statically linked Performer2.1 executables.
> I just closed incident #343583 with a script that should be able to
> patch such programs; it's in:
> /hosts/crusty.asd/perf/trees/perf2.2/perf/sample/tools/perf21xfs
> Please let me know if there are cases where it doesn't work.
>
> Don
>
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On Nov 22, 11:12am, dpierce++at++digital.net wrote:
> Subject: old pf apps
>
> Anyone ever resolve the issue of running an old pf app made
> with IRIX 5.3 / Performer 1.2 on a 6.2 machine with pf 2.0?
>
> I saw a post like the following last week, but did not see
> a response:
>
> Performer Fatal:pfInit: cannot create semaphore arena via NFS
> (/usr/tmp). Change PFTMPDIR.
>
> /usr/tmp is not NFS, but it is XFS. Hmmm...
>
> Is it possible the pfInit (or pfInitArenas) checks the fs type?
> I looked at "acreate" and it doesn't seem to care, though I'm
> not clear on exactly what its allocation strategy is. pfInitArenas
> indicates that it uses swap space for mem allocation and /usr/tmp
> for semaphore allocation.
>
> bye.
>
>
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