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From: pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD Development Manager)
Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 17:32:32 GMT
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A Wizard of Earth C (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote:
: He's only taking the kernel services (from what I gathered) and libraries;
: nevertheless, other than timing issues in select/poll/getitimer/setitimer
: and things that deal with the utmp or passwd file, etc., it should be
: relatively painless.

You are right: We are providing ALL the documented Section 2 calls in our
own kernel.  The rest (such as libc, etc.) are just compiled (with
minimal modifications) from NetBSD and BSD4.4.

We are also porting applications such as the GNU collection, BSD4.3, etc.

As I mentioned before, the only modifications that we had to worry about
were to the open() and fopen() calls due to the differences in handling
text files on UNIX and OS/2.
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