[openbeos] Re: posix compatibility

  • From: "Manuel Jesus Petit de Gabriel" <freston@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:38:58 -0800

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 7:37 AM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: posix compatibility


> That is yet to be determined. 
> I would *guess* some mixture of both.
> Example - strcpy. Obviously, you need it for POSIX compatability. But

That's a poorly choosen example. You need strcpy for ANSI/ISO C
compatibility, not for POSIX compatibility.


manuel,

> everyone includes it in user land. Counter example - fork. Somehow,
> some way, fork makes a kernel call. 
> 
> >Will the posix stuff be in the newos kernel or is there a library that
> >maps the posix calls to beos ones?
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 


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