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Date:      Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:33:35 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        chris@calldei.com
Cc:        billf@chc-chimes.com (Bill Fumerola), green@FreeBSD.org (Brian Fundakowski Feldman), des@FreeBSD.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/linprocfs linprocfs_misc.c
Message-ID:  <200003260933.LAA61208@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20000326010748.E18325@holly.calldei.com> from Chris Costello at "Mar 26, 2000 01:07:48 am"

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It seems Chris Costello wrote:
> On Sunday, March 26, 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> > >    I really think this should be a part of the Linux emulator if
> > > anything.  This just seems like we're only encouraging the use of
> > > bad interfaces.
> > 
> > I think the point of having this "bad interface" in our tree is to open up the
> > doors to software written by linuxcentric and/or unintelligent programmers who
> > write nonportable code.
> 
>    I don't particularly like non-portable code.

hear hear!

> > Sometimes we can get around this by porting their code, sometimes we can't
> > (read: binary only software).
> 
>    See my comment about it being part of the Linux compatibility
> code.

More hear hear, how did this enter the tree anyway ?? this clearly
belongs as part of the linuxulator, it has _nothing_ to do in a
generic FreeBSD system...
I dont remember seeing a discussion on this topic anywhere ??

-Søren


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