Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:48:00 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Subject: Re: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB for Linuxulator variables Message-ID: <19990817084800.B70887@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908161636480.23210-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com>; from Doug on Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 04:38:31PM -0700 References: <199908162230.PAA01266@dingo.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908161636480.23210-100000@dt011n65.san.rr.com>
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* Doug (Doug@gorean.org) [990817 03:40]: > In case anyone cares I'd like to put in a vote for compat.linux. >From the design standpoint this balances the needs of prominence and clean >top level name space nicely. Count me as another in favor of Mike's explanation. Like Mike said, there were a few mistakes already at the top, and IMHO linux ABI stuff doesn't justify a top-level assignment since in fact it's a remapping of Linux calls to FreeBSD equivalent calls, not a true implementation of Linux. So compat.* sounds way more sensible to shim- like implementations. Just my 0.02 euro's. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Take thy beak from out my heart and take thy form from off my door! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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