From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 4 12:51:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17181 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:51:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17170 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:51:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA23351; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:50:51 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd023292; Sun Oct 4 12:50:41 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09045; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:50:34 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810041950.MAA09045@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: What about jdk-1.1.6 for FreeBSD-3.0-ELF ? To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 19:50:34 +0000 (GMT) Cc: green@zone.syracuse.net, cracauer@cons.org, tlambert@primenet.com, nate@mt.sri.com, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Oct 4, 98 12:39:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > That's because of two things, the semantics of the libc call, and the > way that OS calls are done. In the semantics, I'm referring both to > what precisely the call does, which varies sufficiently to be a major > headache, and the number/order of arguments. It's not standard, Brian. For example, the FreeBSD setpgrp takes arguments, when POSIX states that it is a void function. FreeBSD is broken. On the other hand, ther Motif libraries don't make system calls directly, only indirectly through libXt. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message