From: Matthew Wilcox <Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com>
To: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com>,
parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HPUX binary compatibility
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:50:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990621105017.N30362@mencheca.ch.genedata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20550.929910096@upchuck.cygnus.com>; from Jeffrey A Law on Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 02:21:36PM -0600
On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 02:21:36PM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> In message <19990620194015.J30362@mencheca.ch.genedata.com>you write:
> >
> > How far do we want to or are we able to go with making constants identical
> > between HPUX and Linux?
> We never bothered at the UofU. It didn't seem worth the headache to try and
> get either HP or Berkeley to change syscall, errno or other constants.
syscall and errno values are already different on different Linux
architectures anyway, so we have a free hand here.
> Just write translators on the hpux emulation side.
Yes, this is certainly what we'll do. But if we can be clever and get a
bunch of compatibility for free, then we should.
--
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-21 8:50 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
1999-06-20 20:21 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-06-21 8:50 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
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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