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From: Stan Sieler <sieler@allegro.com>
To: Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com (Matthew Wilcox)
Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HPUX binary compatibility
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:45:54 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199906201945.MAA27215@bart.allegro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990620194015.J30362@mencheca.ch.genedata.com> from "Matthew Wilcox" at Jun 20, 99 07:40:15 pm

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/

  reply	other threads:[~1999-06-20 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-06-20 17:40 [parisc-linux] HPUX binary compatibility Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-20 19:45 ` Stan Sieler [this message]
1999-06-20 20:21 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-06-21  8:50   ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-21 15:06     ` [parisc-linux] Assembly error: entry.S John David Anglin
1999-06-21 15:20       ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-21 15:27         ` John David Anglin
1999-06-21 15:42           ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-21 15:55             ` John David Anglin
1999-06-21 16:07               ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-21 16:16                 ` John David Anglin
1999-06-21 16:32             ` [parisc-linux] Hack to head.S John David Anglin
1999-06-21 17:23     ` [parisc-linux] HPUX binary compatibility Stan Sieler
1999-06-21 17:48       ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-06-21 18:07         ` Stan Sieler
1999-06-21 18:23           ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-06-20 21:05 ` Alan Cox
1999-06-21  8:41   ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-21 10:35     ` Alan Cox
1999-06-21 21:39 ` Larry Dwyer
1999-06-22  9:45   ` Matthew Wilcox
1999-06-22  9:49     ` Alan Cox
1999-06-22 10:05       ` Matthew Wilcox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-06-21 18:20 Mike Hibler
1999-06-21 20:49 ` Stan Sieler

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