From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 1 23:18:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA21604 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles304.castles.com [208.214.167.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA21585; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:18:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01153; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:14:45 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809012314.XAA01153@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, sef@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standardizing a BSD/ELF ABI... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Sep 1998 15:40:24 +0930." <19980902154024.E606@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 23:14:44 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> Is FreeBSD ELF binary compatible with NetBSD/OpenBSD/BSDI ELF? > >> > >> If not, should we consider making changes for the 3.0 release > >> to ensure as standard an ABI for BSD-based ELF systems as > >> possible? > > > > You will have to convince the NetBSD people to stop randomly changing > > their system calls first. John Birrell discussed this at some length > > while I was there last week, and it's about at the point where we are > > going to need an ABI shim for them. > > What about BSDI? Presumably they've been stable for a while. Having > those two compatible would also be an incentive for the NetBSD people. Indeed. Anyone here doing anything with BSD/OS these days? Sean, you keep labelling yourself as listening to them... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message