From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Nov 7 14:46:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from peitho.fxp.org (peitho.fxp.org [209.26.95.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3778A37B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:46:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by peitho.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id 868EB1360E; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 17:46:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 17:46:13 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber To: Mark Daniel Szlaga Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Assistance with porting Message-ID: <20001107174613.A65062@peitho.fxp.org> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Faulhaber , Mark Daniel Szlaga , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mszlaga@wormhole.szlaga.net on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:11:16PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:11:16PM -0500, Mark Daniel Szlaga wrote: > Greetings, > I have been slowly attempting to port a program named Hercules to FreeBSD. > My problem is the difference between Linux and FreeBSD's mtio.h and pthread > implimentation. I'm wondering if there are any good references that I should > read to assist in this porting. I have reading the porting handbook on the > FreeBSD website which has helped me with creating the entry for the ports > tree, but not much help with the actual port itself. > The source code for mtio.h in both OS's has helped me figure out what is > lacking or different between the OS's but I'm having a little trouble groking > the actual kernel level code. > Any help in terms of readme's or even textbooks is welcomed, I'm just trying > to get this to make sense to me... and I'm not sure if I'm biting off more than > I can chew. > The best reference will the the header files (along with their respective sources. Actually, I thought I had a port of that a while back...lemme see if I still have it. -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message