Subject: SUSv2 compatibility stubs
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/07/2000 13:25:16
I'd like to add some stubs I've written for some of the SUSv2 (derived from
System V) stuff I've written that maps back to BSD functions in various
ways. There's a utmpx implementation that points back to utmp, statvfs that
points at statfs, and a bunch of other little bits. With a little more
work, I could provide almost enough to make NetBSD SUSv2 compliant.
Though there may be reason to implement some of these at a lower level in
the long run, I was considering making a static-link compatibility library
for such stubs. This way, changing any of the header files and/or
structures in these stubs at a later date, replaced with fully
NetBSD-supported libc and/or kernel versions, would not be as much of a
compatibility issue.
Thoughts?
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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)