From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 26 0:13:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (beachchick.freebsd.dk [212.242.34.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06D3B37B423 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 00:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA83100; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:13:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: farid.hajji@ob.kamp.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Aug 2000 06:02:15 +0200." <200008260402.e7Q42FV29123@mail-ob.kamp.net> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:13:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83098.967274020@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200008260402.e7Q42FV29123@mail-ob.kamp.net>, Farid Hajji writes: >Hello, > >[please Cc: to me, since I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks] > >are there plans to replace FreeBSD's libc with GNU glibc in the near >or medium future? Linux moved also from it's own libc5 to glibc (=libc6) >some time ago and it may be useful to do the same in FreeBSD too. Only if glibc is released under a BSD license *could* this happen, and in that case it would still be up to an actual comparison of the code. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message