Hercules IBM system emulator fails

[zslg01]

The Hercules emulator port fails with an abort(6). I have seen this before under Sierra - usually a dyld issue.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

To clarify, does the port fail to install, or does it successfully install and then the software that is installed fails to work? If a crash is occurring, please attach the macOS crash log file.

[zslg01]

The install works fine. Upon the first execution, an abort(6) occurs when an IPL is issued. Sometimes the abort(6) even happens just on quitting the app.

[zslg01]

To clarify - the abort(6) is issued from Hercules not from the OS trying to load - Hercules never gets that far.

[zslg01]

"Abort trap 6" doesn't seem anything from herc. Google did find the following:

This message tells you that the command executed exited with a non-success result. In this case, "Abort trap: 6" is MacOS's way of telling you that it failed due to a SIGABRT signal (which is signal #6). Usually this would also mean a core dump.

-- I will try and run debugger and get dump

[zslg01]

The fix is here (from Hercules discussion group)

View Source it is fixed in the latest git if You do not want to pull the updated sources just in hscutl change SOL_TCP to IPPROTO_TCP

and in panel.c around line 707 substitute

strlcpy( cmdline, cmd, sizeof(cmdline) );

*

with *

if (cmd != (void*)cmdline)

strlcpy( cmdline, cmd, sizeof(cmdline) );

*

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

See #54369.