> > >> 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 -- Fortune Cookie Says: Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive. -- John Sloan