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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: Sun, 21 Nov 1993 20:35:07 GMT
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Andrew Mendelsohn (mendels1@husc4.harvard.edu) wrote:
: how do you deal with the lack of ownership in the OS/2
: file systems (FAT & HPFS)?  Have you ported the BSD FFS?

We have managed to add file ownership capabilities to FAT and HPFS. The
mechanism will be published with the release documentation.

As far as porting the BSD FFS... we are working on it, but in a low-priority
mode.  We want to be able to support existing OS/2 and NT customer base
and allow UNIX developers to bring their apps to OS/2 and NT first.

This project should allow a UNIX developer to take their existing UNIX
apps, recompile and relink them on OS/2 and NT, and bring them to the
PC market as painlessly as possible.  The result will be: using the PCBSD
development environment, existing UNIX programs will run on PCs, and new
PC and UNIX programs will run on both systems.
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