From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 24 16:04:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA19192 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:04:03 -0700 Received: from trepan.io.org (taob@trepan.io.org [198.133.36.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA19183 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:04:00 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by trepan.io.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA25386; Sun, 24 Sep 1995 19:03:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 19:03:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big win for BSD/OS compatibility In-Reply-To: <1839.811975041@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 24 Sep 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I'm currently talking with them (Netscape) about this very subject. > Apparently they need dlopen()/dlsym() functionality in Netscape 2.0 > and this is not provided in BSDI 1.1, so there's a problem. I wonder how many BSD/OS 1.1 users are out there, and how much of a stink they would raise if Netscape doesn't support it with the new Navigator. :) Writing code that works both with BSD/OS 2.0 and FreeBSD 2.x should not be terribly difficult, and Netscape can always calls for help from FreeBSD users if they are *that* afraid of the support issue. > I'm now busily trying to talk them into doing both BSDI 2.0 and > FreeBSD 2.x native ports.. :-) Cool beans. :) -- Brian Tao System Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"