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Date:      Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:49:11 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New "libc" project libposix
Message-ID:  <h0hn71$qi0$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <c23df7cb0906070620p734f78d9gc68084ccfeff85b1@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <c23df7cb0906070620p734f78d9gc68084ccfeff85b1@mail.gmail.com>

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Henrique Almeida wrote:
>  Hello,
> 
>  I've created a new project to build a compliant POSIX 2008 library. The
> goals of the project are to build a cross platform, easy to use library that
> will unify the POSIX implementation on all systems.
> 
>  Everybody is welcome, specially "libc" developers. ;-)
> 
>  http://libposix.sourceforge.net/

I think that a lot of compliance depends on the kernel - you can't solve
those in libc.

Another thing: are you starting from scratch or using an existing libc?
I imagine that using e.g. FreeBSD's libc and fixing compatiblity issues
will make your whole project complete significantly faster.


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