Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:17:26 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: millueradfa@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20080207101726.GB3001@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <50460.33951.qm@web34512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <50460.33951.qm@web34512.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 2008-02-06 09:23, "millueradfa@yahoo.com" <millueradfa@yahoo.com> wrote: > Dear FreeBSD Developers, > > I have a few suggestions for how FreeBSD can be improved in an upcoming > release. > The third idea is for more of a move to Linux and, SUS , and POSIX > source compatability in regards to additional features supported by > these systems. I still in 6.0 run into some calls that are not supported > by FreeBSD that is a real headache. I ran into this with posix_memalign > in some software. Although posix_memalign is more modern, If it would > be trivial to add support for linux specific valloc and memalign why not > do so as well, to maintain compatability with older Linux software. It > is better to just make FreeBSD be as compatable and for stuff to compile > out of box, as possible than to haggle over conditional ifdefs and > changing lines of code in software. FWIW, posix_memalign() *is* supported by the new malloc() implementation in FreeBSD 7.X. The current RELENG_7 branch has it, so it has already found its way towards a release. If there are other library functions you would like to see implemented in FreeBSD too, then it would be nice to post a summary of your findings to freebsd-hackers or freebsd-arch :) - Giorgos
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