Subject: Problem iBCS appeared starting from the version Linux RedHat 6.1
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We use, under development, a BASIC interpreter that initially functioned
under various SCO environments : (SCO XENIX 386, SCO UNIX 3.2 v4.2, SCO
OPENSERVER 5).

We succeeded, without problems and thanks to the iBCS module, to work
whith it in a linux RedHat 6.0 (2.2.5) developpement environnement.In
order to follow the Linux peripheral drivers evolutions, we have done
tests whith the RedHat 6.1 (kernel 2.2.10) and RedHat 6.2 (kernel 2.2.14).
The first tests were not convincing :
The launching of the interpreter always ended with an error
"Segmentation fault".

The only way we found to avoid this problem has been to install the BASIC
interpreter in a small linux ext2 partition of 10 Mb and by using a 
symbolic link to have it in the /usr directory.
This "solution" works fine too for other binary files that were causing
the same errors "Segmentation Faults".

As you can imagine, we are not satisfied with this solution and we are
looking for information about this problem :
        - Why does it appear?
        - Is there something to do to solve it really?
        - Is our "empirical solution" the only way to execute our
	  binary files?

To understand better the problem, here are some more informations about
what we did.
Additional information:

1 - information returned by " file " for the binary file (b):
    # b:  Pure Microsoft a.out separate segmented Word-swapped V2.3 V3.0
    386 small model executable

2 - binary type of file recognized by iBCS:  format xout

3 -  Case which does not function correctly:

     Partitioning:
     /dev/sda5 one / standard ext2 (rw) (1500Mo)
     /dev/sda1 one / standardboot ext2 (rw) (1OMo)
     /dev/sda7 one /uss standard ext2 (rw) (500Mo)

     Installation:
     b copied in / usr/local/bin

     Result (Bad :-( ):
     #/usr/local/bin/b
     Segmentation fault

4 -  Case which functions correctly:

      Partitioning:

      /dev/sda5 one / standard ext2 (rw) (1500Mo)
      /dev/sda1 one / standardboot ext2 (rw) (10Mo)
      /dev/sda7 one / cibcs standard ext2 (rw) (10Mo)
      /dev/sda8 one / uss standard ext2 (rw) (490Mo)

      Installation:
      b copied /cibcs
      ln - s /cibcs/b /usr/local/bin/b

      Result (Good :-)  ):
      #/usr/local/bin/b
      Running CBASE...
      IPL doesn't exist or is not a regular file.
      #