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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: What happened to these projects ?
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 93 20:28:38 GMT
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In article <1r17cqINNqgi@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) writes:
>There have been discussions in the Newsgroups and the mailing lists at ref
>about a few projects for 386BSD, but I haven't heard anything about them
>for a long time. Among these projects I remember:
>
> shared libraries
In progress. I have several linker mods to make above and beyond the PIC
stuff working (yes, I have working PIC stuff, but I got it from elsewhere).
I'll post when I have something concrete that works all the time.
> loadable kernel modules
Both Garrett Wollman and myself have implementations that work. Both of us
would require extra work to release (my impression is that we both have
a bunch of experimental stuff that we would have to rip out to make vanilla
loaded kernel modules).
> /proc filesystem
I have one that works in 0.0 (but not in 0.1); does that count? You'd be
better looking elsewhere.
> booting 386BSD from DOS
> environment dependend symlinks
I have this working two ways, but it depends on the process environment at
the time it was run in the first instance, and on having my logical names
code installed in the second. It's probably not to everyone's taste, but
the second implementation also solves the modifying the parent's environment
problem and allows for system wide "environment variables", like 'HOST'.
> object file system
I have vapor.
> automatic /dev configuration
> kernel configuration utility
> better device probing
>
>Is anybody working on any variant of the above projects ?
>There has been a very live discussion about a few of these, but I
>haven't seen many actual implementations.
This is probably because 386BSD sems to be losing momentum from the lack of
short enough inter-release intervals. Hopefully this is/will be corrected.
Or it could just be that with ref gone, there's no place to hold the live
meetings.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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