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Subject: RE: Some ideas for FreeBSD
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> It is one thing to add support for a POSIX call into FreeBSD.
> That's fine.
>
> It's quite another to break a header or supply hacky 32-bit-only
> code in a library or some such just because Linux does the same
> brain-dead stuff and the Linux maintainers are too stubborn or
> stupid to fix Linux.
>
don't forget that linux changed from being good unix OS to be windows 
competitor. and it's competing well.