On 22 June 2010 13:24, Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote:
> In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
>
>> Yes, but that would probably be a very daunting task.
>
> The problem is not the programming (since a dedicated person could probably
> start with a translated glibc in a good month), but the continuous
> maintenance (for every distribution separately, since they could use
> different kernels, options etc) , and interoperability with C code would be
> killing.

What maintenance are you referring to?  The syscall interface is very
stable, so you wouldn't have to touch anything there.  I haven't
looked at the nptl source, yet, what do they use that changes between
distros?

Henry
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