Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 19:50:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey) Cc: green@zone.syracuse.net, cracauer@cons.org, tlambert@primenet.com, nate@mt.sri.com, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What about jdk-1.1.6 for FreeBSD-3.0-ELF ? Message-ID: <199810041950.MAA09045@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810041231320.362-100000@picnic.mat.net> from "Chuck Robey" at Oct 4, 98 12:39:06 pm
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> That's because of two things, the semantics of the libc call, and the > way that OS calls are done. In the semantics, I'm referring both to > what precisely the call does, which varies sufficiently to be a major > headache, and the number/order of arguments. It's not standard, Brian. For example, the FreeBSD setpgrp takes arguments, when POSIX states that it is a void function. FreeBSD is broken. On the other hand, ther Motif libraries don't make system calls directly, only indirectly through libXt. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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