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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1246 comp.os.386bsd.questions:5976 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD, NetBSD coexist and share filesystem! Message-ID: <CEyAos.7Kx@veda.is> Date: 15 Oct 93 18:14:37 GMT References: <CExLov.3At@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <CEy3zt.1Lp@festival.ed.ac.uk> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 16 richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: >In article <CExLov.3At@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) writes: >>Hopefully, the X stuff, GNU s/w, share s/w, >>should be able to be shared between the two, >Unfortunately a number of common utilities (bash, emacs, ls) can't be >properly shared because of the changed dbm format. Anything that >converts a uid to a username is likely to lose. This is patently untrue. FreeBSD and NetBSD both use the same db format. However, the exec header is different for binaries, so all the binaries would have to be linked by FreeBSD or using the compatible option in NetBSD. -- adam@veda.is