Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 14:37:21 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux Message-ID: <201005221437.21707.bruce@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100522135526.580642d7@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <50B3A5560BA4D74CADEC55A48B4641B23D5119D0BA@EMBX01-HQ.jnpr.net> <20100522135526.580642d7@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Saturday 22 May 2010 13:55:26 RW wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2010 05:09:31 -0700 > > Anjali Kulkarni <anjali@juniper.net> wrote: > > I am not sure the right forum to ask this question - is there any > > effort done to find portable code between different OSes, > > particularly freebsd and linux? > > BSD code has been used in most operating systems due to its open > licence, but it's very awkward to mix GNU/Linux GPLed code with BSD > code without the whole thing ending up GPLed. The bigger problem perhaps is that Linux has its own way of doing things: whereas for example UNIX has traditionally used routing sockets, Linux uses netlink. I don't think there's much in the way of common architecture between Linux and FreeBSD unfortunately. -- Bruce Cran
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