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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 sleep.9
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>Probably what we could do is have a porting.9 that's MLINKED to the various
>function names that are common elsewhere and give some hints about how it's
>done on freebsd instead and what the porting implications are. That should
>make it less painful for converting sysv and OtherBSD drivers. In the

I expect most ports will be from Linux drivers, so sysv and OtherBSD
experience won't apply :-).

Bruce