matthew green wrote:
Think you could port BSD libc to Linux without making a mess?
considering that we (netbsd) basically have a source-compat layer
for netbsd software on linux, this actually is a whole lot simplier
and easier than you may otherwise think.
Could be. I know my way around Fr
Think you could port BSD libc to Linux without making a mess?
considering that we (netbsd) basically have a source-compat layer
for netbsd software on linux, this actually is a whole lot simplier
and easier than you may otherwise think.
The BSD libc is smaller for about the same reas
Ian Jackson wrote:
This whole conversation seems baffling to me. Have any of the people
posting opinions actually looked at the source code of the two libcs ?
I have. I've done some hacking on both the FreeBSD libc and glibc.
glibc is a complex horror [1]; the BSD libc is a fairly nice and clean
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This whole conversation seems baffling to me. Have any of the people
posting opinions actually looked at the source code of the two libcs ?
glibc is a complex horror [1]; the BSD libc is a fairly nice and clean
implementation. It seems to me that there is little doubt which libc
we would prefer
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:24:48AM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
>
> > This may boil down further to a
> > question of whether it is better to make a small number of large changes
> > to a small amount of code, or a large number of small changes to a lot
> > of code, spread over a lot of so
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 01:19:11AM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
> These are opinions, not proven facts.
>
> It is not yet entirely clear what the whole situation with glibc will
> be. I am working with it on FreeBSD, but have by no means decided for or
> against it yet. I am still assessing it.
Nathan Hawkins wrote:
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How much work is it to make the BSD sources work with glibc, and glibc
work well with them, and is it actually less work than patching Debian
packages to run with the BSD libc? This may boil down further to a
Don't forget, there are over 7000 ports in the FreeBSD po
These are opinions, not proven facts.
It is not yet entirely clear what the whole situation with glibc will
be. I am working with it on FreeBSD, but have by no means decided for or
against it yet. I am still assessing it. This is what I have found so far:
Pros
* Makes a dramatic difference in th
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