> 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? > Specifically, the networking layer could be portable between the 2 and there > could be some set of APIs to call into the OS specific parts. This could be > modeled as - if I want to port the networking layer or other stuff to > userland, what set of code could reside in userspace such that that layer is > portable between OSes ? For eg, there could be an API to access mbufs or > skbuffs in freebsd or linux respectively, but the processing to be done for > IP etc could remain the same. I don't know if this is worth thinking about? > Please share your thoughts.
Are you sure the Linux crowd is interested in this? As far as I know the BSD networking code has been *available* to the Linux crowd basically from day 1 - but they chose to write their own... Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no _______________________________________________ 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"
