Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 12:53:09 -0800 From: RHS Linux User <dicen@hooked.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: What to do about the 2.0 GNU libc? Message-ID: <32EBC435.63297F3E@hooked.net>
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I must appologize for my past posts to this mail list. I now see that freebsd is the way it is for a reason. Also the handling of ppp connections in linux and most other OS's really sucks. FreeBSD has the best implimentation I have ever seen. I am curious about the up and comming GNU 2.0 libc. Since the BSD's have their own libc will you be replacing yours with the GNU one? Not that I like GNU to much (it seams to be becomming the Microsoft of the free software world) but it would save a lot of developement time if you didn't have to worry about your own library. Since this the GNU libc will be used by Linux it would be hard to go wrong. FreeBSD would be using the same libc are it's chief competitor. FreeBSD would then only have the userland commands to deal with, since Linux of course has GNU maintaining those. I hate GNU binutils. The next question is. Is the GNU libc 2.0 being ported? I saw that someone was doing a port for BSDI2.0, is this not the same as FreeBSD? I am very interested the GNU libc 2.0 for its posix threads and the fact that it is rentrant (which it has to be of course for threads). What is the status of kernel-threads in FreeBSD? I heard that you where getting there. Since you have linux compatibility (except for clone() right?) would it not be possible to just use the GNU libc 2.0 the way it is? Does it ever have to be ported? I am sure Linux will always have presidence with GNU anyway. This of course looks really bad since eventually freebsd will have linux's kernel calls. But think about it. It is only externel, just as the GNU libc is externel. Is FreeBSD BSD without the BSD libc? Good question. I have many more questions.... Thanks...
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