On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Joel Klecker wrote: > No you don't, a native FreeBSD port of glibc2 wouldn't have any need of > Linux system call emulation. > glibc is designed to be portable, the majority of its code is system > independant, system dependencies are in a hierarchial directory structure > (sysdeps/) from least specific to most specific as you traverse deeper in > the tree.
I think it would be even reasonable and possible to edit the FreeBSD kernel headers in such a way that glibc was *binary compatible* with linux glibc - this would mean that to run freebsd kernel all you need is to recompile glibc, the kernel and a handfull of system utilites (route, ifconfig, etc) The rest of the system would run natively. Of course this would be utterly binary incompatible with a normal FreeBSD system, but I don't think that is an issue. What I am thinking of in particular are changes to numbered constants like E*, signal numbers, protocol numbers, etc that glibc uses from the kernel. Jason
