From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 20:54:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F9337BA76 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 20:54:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA13807; Wed, 24 May 2000 03:53:51 GMT (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200005240348.WAA09825@noel.cs.rice.edu> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:23:51 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mohit Aron Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, (Dan Feldman) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-May-00 Mohit Aron wrote: > But seriously, I think the problem can be fixed with a more transparent > interface for Linux programs. Rather than requiring Linux libraries to be > put > in /compat/linux, it would be much easier if everything could be put in > /usr/lib. Which probably means having the SAME interface as Linux. Why would somthing like that happen? I don't particularly want some Linux guy inventing a new library which has the same name as a system library and then spamming something vital in /usr/lib If its in /compat/linux at least its segregated, and doesn't screw something vital up. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message