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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:27:40 -0400
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4/man4.i386 linux.4 Makefile
Message-ID:  <39A5772C.9ECB5F7D@cup.hp.com>
References:  <7146.967133180@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>

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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:01:46 -0400, "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" wrote:
> 
> > "Linux to native system call vector redirection"
> >
> > just *might* be better worded as
> >
> > "Linux to native system call translation"
> >
> > I don't think 'vector' is appropriate and translation is
> > indeed being done AFAIK.
> 
> Anyone have any better suggestions, or is Jeroen's wording good?  I
> wouldn't know one way or another.  For all I know, the Linuxulator runs
> on tomato juice. ;-)

Aha... that would explain why I'm drooling everytime I'm working on the
Linuxulator :-)

I prefer "system call translation" over "vector redirection". Maybe the
use of ABI is not misplaced as well (as in "ABI translation")?

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
  mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org
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