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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: comments on this change please.
To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:43:53 -0700 (MST)
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> > It also seems to me that if the Linux binary compataility dependent
> > people wanted a /dev/log, they would be well advised to do:
> > 
> >         ln -s /var/run/syslog.socket /compat/linux/dev/log
> 
> that's ok for linux but not BSDI

It *should* be OK for BSDI -- does our BSD compatability not follow the
same model as everything else?  If it doesn't, I'd say fix the BSDI
compatability.


> > The same goes for other platforms for which binary compatability is
> > an issue.
> 
> BSDI runs as native..

Bletch.  It needs fixed, then.  8-(.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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