From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 6 19:42:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6181916A538 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:42:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A43FC13C458 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:42:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) id m16JgmwP069622; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:42:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:42:48 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: "millueradfa@yahoo.com" Message-ID: <20080206194248.GE17472@dan.emsphone.com> References: <50460.33951.qm@web34512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50460.33951.qm@web34512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:42:50 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 06), millueradfa@yahoo.com said: > The third idea is for more of a move to Linux and, SUS , and POSIX > source compatability in regards to additional features supported by > these systems. I still in 6.0 run into some calls that are not > supported by FreeBSD that is a real headache. I ran into this with > posix_memalign in some software. posix_memalign is in 7.0, actually. If there are any posix functions still missing, you can send a mail to the freebsd-standards@freebsd.org list, or file a PR with the category set to "standards". Patches welcome, too :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com