Re: HP-UX support and portability

[Rick Jones via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Rick Jones <jonesrick () google com>
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> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:13:34 -0700
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> I meant to include an "only" in there :)  Wasn't meaning to suggest any
> heroic efforts should be made.
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> happy benchmarking,
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> rick
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> On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 4:08 PM Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net> wrote:
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> > On Mar 12, 2024, at 2:07 PM, Rick Jones via tcpdump-workers <
> > tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org> wrote:
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> > > If https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX#Version_history is any
> > indication,
> > > there are ~21 months left on HP's (er, sorry, HPE's) own support for
> > HP-UX.
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> > As far as I know, now that Itania are no longer being manufactured and
> > shipped, and given that HPE haven't, as far as I know, shown any sign of
> > plans to port HP-UX to x86-64, the future is something like "no more HP-UX,
> > just the ability to run HP-UX Itanium binaries on x86-64 Linux with
> > binary-to-binary translation and either HP-UX system call emulation or
> > HP-UX shared library call emulation".
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> > I can't find much to indicate the details of the strategy, except that it
> > involves "Linux containers" in some fashion; if one of those particular
> > "Linux containers" won't run native Linux/x86-64 applications and emulated
> > HP-UX/Itanium apps in parallel, maybe there'd be some demand for the HP-UX
> > tcpdump running in a container; otherwise, running a Linux tcpdump using
> > Linux libpcap would probably be the future.
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