On Saturday 22 May 2010 13:55:26 RW wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2010 05:09:31 -0700 > > Anjali Kulkarni <anj...@juniper.net> wrote: > > I am not sure the right forum to ask this question - is there any > > effort done to find portable code between different OSes, > > particularly freebsd and linux? > > BSD code has been used in most operating systems due to its open > licence, but it's very awkward to mix GNU/Linux GPLed code with BSD > code without the whole thing ending up GPLed.
The bigger problem perhaps is that Linux has its own way of doing things: whereas for example UNIX has traditionally used routing sockets, Linux uses netlink. I don't think there's much in the way of common architecture between Linux and FreeBSD unfortunately. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
