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On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:34:09PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > Emulating system calls isn't that if you have a good designed system I mean "isn't that difficult if". Sorry for the mistake. > like the Hurd. I give you a big chance of being able to emulate BSD if > you want to. You can even emulate it on system call level if I'm > right (at least that's what I've read somewhere, but I don't remember > the details, some Hurd hackers on this list could probably tell you > more if you're interested). But it's not worth the trouble, a > recompile against a compatible glibc is much easier. I'm not sure I'm right here, as I'm talking about things I haven't studied yet. If you're interested in binary compatibility I can give you some papers, but this is offtopic on this list. Recompiling against a compatible libc is just the Right Way if you want to support BSD apps. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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