From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 24 7:35: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 824C914CFD for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 07:34:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.74]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA5B2F; Mon, 24 May 1999 16:34:56 +0200 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (abaddon@daemon [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA29400; Mon, 24 May 1999 16:35:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199905241117.TAA06831@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 16:35:14 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: (Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth) Subject: RE: Lists of libc APIs for *bsd &linux Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-May-99 Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > I'm hunting around for a list of entry points in both Linux & FreeBSD's > libc. I want to find out what linux libc entry points are not found > within the BSD libc, and what entry points that are common have different > arguments be they just different or things of the same name with different > definitions. > > This is so a shim library can be developed allowing the use of Linux > libraries liked into FreeBSD binaries. I am anticipating that perhaps the > Linux lib may have to be altered in some way (changing the name of an > external reference where it clashes with a FreeBSD libc call of the same > name with varying arguments, or mapping external variables onto their > FreeBSD equivalents). It'll make the use of certain recalcitrant third > party libs a bunch easier. Well, there's work underway to document the NetBSD/FreeBSD sources wrt to functions, system calls, etc... See some of that stuff at my homepage (URL in .sig) and look for the PDP link. Should you receive additional information, please keep me informed so I can expand the list. 'gards, --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The FreeBSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Accept no limitations... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message