km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) (01/28/89)
Is it possible to have one set of MacOS binaries served
by a Unix fileserver that can be executed by both MacII's
running A/UX (over NFS), and Macs runing MacOS over
Appleshare?
What I haven't filled in above is what would do the
Appleshare service for the Unix server. The two possibilties
I know of are AUFS, or just letting a gatorbox do the
translation.
The key issue in this question, is just having one set of
Mac binaries for both servers.
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Atlanta, GA 30322 | Phone: (404) 727-7963liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) (02/07/89)
In article <3650@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes: >Is it possible to have one set of MacOS binaries served >by a Unix fileserver that can be executed by both MacII's >running A/UX (over NFS), and Macs runing MacOS over >Appleshare? > >What I haven't filled in above is what would do the >Appleshare service for the Unix server. The two possibilties >I know of are AUFS, or just letting a gatorbox do the >translation. You'd use NFS for the A/UX stuff, but watch out: the ToolboxDaemon reads directories as files and expects to see SysV directory entries, so it all fails in a ghastly way if the file server is not a 68000-based SysV machine. In fact, when I suffered this problem, the toolboxdaemon destroyed my /tmp partition, which I suspect means that it plays fast and loose with mmap and so breaks the memory protection (sigh!). A/UX works OK with the Apple Double Format files, so it would probably be easiest to modify AUFS so that it stores the .finderinfo parts as effectively prefixes to the resource fork. It is also necessary to store both resource and data in the same directory (I think), the A/UX convention is to put % on the front of the name to indicate the resource fork, but that is probably even less difficult. The finderinfo is of a fixed size, so this won't unduly affect performance, unlike the Apple Single Format which has all of the parts in the same file. What have you got that will actually RUN under A/UX without a) dying or b) trying to use colour/noises/printers which aren't there in release 1.0? -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP 190 Mile End Road Tel: 01-975 5250 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Fax: 01-981 7517