From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 2 00:05:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA29947 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 00:05:25 -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 AAA29905; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 00:05:13 -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 AAA01520; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 00:01:14 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809020001.AAA01520@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mark Murray cc: Mike Smith , Greg Lehey , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, sef@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standardizing a BSD/ELF ABI... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Sep 1998 08:56:40 +0200." <199809020656.IAA29187@gratis.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 00:01:13 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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... > > I have 3.1.and 4.0 with source. What can I do? (I picking up the thread > a bit late, here). You could start by taking a FreeBSD ELF binary and seeing if it runs on the BSD/OS system, and vice-versa. You'll want something dynamically linked to test the library ABI. Then you might want to compare the syscalls.master files, and see how badly we're diverging from them. (This is an issue for anything statically linked.) -- \\ 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