From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 16 23:47:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5080714D67 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:47:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.232]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAB5490; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:47:57 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA71311; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:48:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:48:00 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Doug Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith Subject: Re: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB for Linuxulator variables Message-ID: <19990817084800.B70887@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <199908162230.PAA01266@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug on Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 04:38:31PM -0700 Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * 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 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