Re: Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux

2010-05-22 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Howdy Anjali, I was paid for over a year to read libc implementations and the supporting kernel code, and wrote XPG/1 as a specification of what my employers at the time, Bull, ICL, Siemons, Olivetti and Nixdorff, circa 1986, were intending to implement, from their various v7, PWB, SysIII and SySV

Re: Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux

2010-05-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Anjali Kulkarni wrote: > Hi Folks, > > 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

Re: Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux

2010-05-22 Thread Aman Jassal
Hello, sth...@nethelp.no a écrit : 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

Re: Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux

2010-05-22 Thread sthaug
> 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

Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux

2010-05-22 Thread Anjali Kulkarni
Hi Folks, 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 specif