From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: klibc development release
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:48:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D54EF69.5060709@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020810114003.A5459@infradead.org
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 01:27:36AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>
>> How NetBSD handles the issue, I don't know. One interpretation
>> of what you say is that when a new architecture is added to NetBSD,
>> it will instantly inherit the entire historical set of syscalls,
>> including the obsolete ones.
>
> netbsd puts all syscall code not needed by the current release under a
> per-version ifdef. A new port starting at, say 1.4, will never have
> this enabled (unless it has binary emulations that need parts of the
> old syscalls)
Sure, but that still means the *current* ABI is consistent between
platforms.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-10 10:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-09 3:39 klibc development release H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 10:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-08-09 18:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 11:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-09 19:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-09 18:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 19:04 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-09 19:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 22:27 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-08-09 22:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-10 6:22 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-10 6:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-10 10:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-10 10:48 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-08-10 10:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-10 10:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-10 6:21 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-09 19:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 20:22 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-09 20:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 20:16 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-09 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-11 5:02 ` Rob Landley
2002-08-11 13:13 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-12 2:29 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-12 4:39 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-09 22:03 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-11 5:11 ` Rob Landley
2002-08-11 15:56 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-11 18:20 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-11 15:31 ` Rob Landley
2002-08-11 21:04 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-11 22:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-12 3:17 ` Jamie Lokier
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