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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2357 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:55:39 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.ans.net!cmcl2!panix!tls From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Subject: Re: 386BSD Posix Compliance Message-ID: <C34DGs.JFo@panix.com> Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC References: <1993Feb25.080612.16553@gmd.de> <C31DH5.3n3@panix.com> <1993Feb26.100453.21001@gmd.de> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 18:17:16 GMT Lines: 35 In article <1993Feb26.100453.21001@gmd.de> veit@fanoe.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: >In article <C31DH5.3n3@panix.com>, tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes: >[...] >|> >|> I got a nice note from Lynne about my previous post; I still think we're >|> sort of talking to our own idea of what each other are saying, though. > >I also believe this is a problem. > >|> Just for the record: What disappoints me about the prospect of kernel >|> interfaces changing is the ability to use other _free_ software (kernel >|> extensions, obviously) which is now or might in the future be written by >|> the users of other _free_ operating systems, or _free_ software written by >|> users of commercial systems. A commercial system I'm _not_ after. > >Is this the cited note from Lynne? Don't think so, from my knowledge. >Nothing against _free_ software, but did you actually see such a beast, say >a device driver for some *foo OS*, which can just be taken without modifications >and runs on a *bar OS* ? Want to run the Mach xyzzy device driver which uses >special Mach features under 386bsd? It is possible, by using a large number of I don't think this is exactly 100% on target. Vfs file systems, for example, are largely portable among all Net2-derived operating systems (well, God only knows about HURD at this point) and not tremendously hard to add to the other operating systems which use VFS, if you've got source code. I don't want to sacrifice that kind of easy portability. No, just to clear things up, the above "Just for..." was me writing. That's why it's not indented in my original article, of course. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM "Better be careful there. John might decide to start taking legal action against people who refuse to buy stuff from him." --Kevin McBride