From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 27 11:37: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C878737B424 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:36:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13T7PP-00007C-00; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:43:55 -0600 Message-ID: <39A9616B.AC5BDF4D@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:43:55 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach) References: <39A74783.FF8CF3AF@softweyr.com> <200008261721.e7QHL8V15403@mail-ob.kamp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Farid Hajji wrote: > > > > > are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near > > > > or medium future? > Thanks for all your replies. I perfectly understand the reasons for avoiding > GNU copylefted code like glibc in FreeBSD. Using the Hurd/Mach as kernel > replacement for FreeBSD would indeed require adding the syscall emulation > feature like in Lites/RT-Mach, linking against FreeBSD's libc and adding > missing functionality as stubs. I just hoped it would be a bit easier ;-) I've never found an easy way to do hard work. I don't think anyone would fault you for trying, though. > BTW, I don't have any problems with the FreeBSD kernel itself or its libc. > They are excellent and I'm using them both at home and exclusively for > mission critical applications. Keep up the good work! Agreed. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message