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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: What about jdk-1.1.6 for FreeBSD-3.0-ELF ?
To: sthaug@nethelp.no
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 23:58:22 +0000 (GMT)
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> > On the other hand, ther Motif libraries don't make system calls directly,
> > only indirectly through libXt.
> 
> A small extract from "nm libXm.so | grep ' U ' | sort -u" on the Solaris
> X86 libXm.so:
> 
>          U access
>          U getgid
>          U getuid
>          U poll
>          U sigaction
>          U sigprocmask
> 
> Sure looks to me like the Solaris Motif library makes system calls...

These are undefined.  That means it gets them from the libc.  It is the
libc that makes the system calls.

Have you identified any system calls taking structure arguments, where
the structure definitions are different between FreeBSD and Solaris?
That is the real kicker.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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