From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 12: 9:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729D337B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:09:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgate5.cinetic.de (mailgate5.cinetic.de [217.72.192.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5B043ED8 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:09:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael.ritzert@web.de) Received: from web.de (fmomail01.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.1.45]) by mailgate5.cinetic.de (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.0-0.4) with SMTP id h0NK9DO12390; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:09:13 +0100 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:09:13 +0100 Message-Id: <200301232009.h0NK9DO12390@mailgate5.cinetic.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Organization: http://freemail.web.de/ From: Michael Ritzert To: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org, "PavelCahyna" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: glibc vs BSD libc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pavel Cahyna schrieb am 23.01.03 19:14:41: > > To David Brownlee: I doubt NetBSD 1.0 binary could run against > a NetBSD 1.6 libc. They don't care much about binary compatibility. You > could not even run a statically linked 1.0 app without some COMPAT_ > option in the kernel, I think. Like in many other OSes, NetBSD switched from a.out to ELF. This has the consequence that You need to add some kind of compatibility mode to support both formats - be it switchable (like in NetBSD or Linux) or not. Michael ______________________________________________________________________________ Bequemer und billiger - SMS mit FreeMail verschicken! Mehr Information unter: http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021147 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message