From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA28163 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:46:52 -0600 From: Stan Sieler Message-Id: <199906201945.MAA27215@bart.allegro.com> Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HPUX binary compatibility To: Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com (Matthew Wilcox) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com In-Reply-To: <19990620194015.J30362@mencheca.ch.genedata.com> from "Matthew Wilcox" at Jun 20, 99 07:40:15 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII List-ID: Re: > How far do we want to or are we able to go with making constants identical > between HPUX and Linux? > > Some syscalls are going to have to be different between the two OSes -- > ioctl is the obvious example -- but it would be nice to have to do as > little work as possible. that's why I suggested shifting the Linux system call magic numbers upwards, to avoid the HP range. If the Linux ioctl is different than the HP-UX one, then it should have a different syscall number. > Linux has things which HPUX doesn't, HPUX might later allocate the same > number for a different extension. Not if HP agrees to reserve a range for Linux use. > (Of course, if HP want to add Linux binary compatibility to HPUX, now > would be a great time to mention it :-) that sounds fair! -- Stan Sieler sieler@allegro.com http://www.allegro.com/sieler/