[openbeos] Re: newos libc
- From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:04:59 EST (-0500)
>
> >> I think I am a little bit of a BeOS "pure-ist" and want OpenBeOS
> > > to
> >> be
> >> as similar as possible, and using libroot.so would help this
> > > right?
> >
> >Agreed. I've asked this question 3 or 4 times, and been ignored
> > every
> >time.
> >-Nathan
> >
>
>
>
> After a breif discussion with Travis G. and Marcus O. (I think)
> on IRC a few days ago, it seemed a lot easier and faster to move
> ahead and provide the libc functionality at the newos kernel level
> for POSIX. This could then be adequately wrapped for OBOS.
>
> There doesn't seem to be much agreement about how POSIX
> should be pulled together.
> People started by demanding that I find a way to implement 'fork'
> .
> I thought that we wanted the library *fixed*. I commenced writing
> a fixed library.
> I was then waiting for kernel thread functions to start pthreads
> stuff (fork). I went to the source, Travis on IRC, and got a few
> answers
> from people there.
> It was suggested there that I work a bit on libc to speed things
> along.
> I am now getting flak for working on that............(strange)
Cool. This is what I wanted to know. Thank you.
-Nathan
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