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[Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Axel Dörfler wrote:
> No, but I have another idea that takes Oliver's problems into account:
> Our startup code could know that it's the Haiku startup code - so if 
> you link something for or under Haiku, it can know this, and the 
> networking code could then never use the compatibility layer. If it's 
> the BeOS startup code, it would test if the executable has been linked 
> against libbind.so/libsocket.so, and if that's not the case, it would 
> enable the R5 mode.
> The only (additional) disadvantage is that if you'd like to build R5 
> executables under Haiku, you'll also need the R5 startup code to link 
> against.
> How does that sound? Too ugly or just good enough?

This seems very sensible to me. I don't think that anyone wants to go back 
to R5 - it is getting harder and harder to find hardware that will run on 
R5; if it weren't for Haiku drivers, I wonder if you could even buy a new 
box today that would run...