On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:54:42AM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > And even if you hack all the header files, there's still inlined versions > from things compiled for GNU/Linux one day when we have binary compatibility.
I doubt if binary compatibility with GNU/Linux is a good thing to have. It looks like we are then bound to the ABI and can't change it if we want to keep compatibility. There are also other problems, for example a program compiled on GNU/Linux could happily use PATH_MAX but that would cause a buffer overflow on GNU/Hurd. Also programs on GNU/Linux can use the /proc filesystem and can't on GNU/Hurd. There are probably more issues. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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