[openbeos] Re: newos libc

  • From: "Peter Willis" <p.willis@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:05:32 -0800

This is what I'm aiming at.

Peter

>
>POSIX != libc
>
>Libc is the C standard library. Stuff like fopen() and fclose() and the
>string functions, etc. They can be built on top of posix, or something
>else appropriate. There is a lot of work to be done in the kernel and
>user space to implement posix, but libc is also needed. I'd say
>implement that over the top of the native newos api. We can then build a
>posix layer as well, and push some of it into the kernel (signals,
>fork(), etc).
>
>Travis
>


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