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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!newshub.nosc.mil!nosc!pegasus!freebsd!richard From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Subject: Re: WP for Linux, BSD? (binary compatibility) References: <1994Mar9.082547.1022@news.csuohio.edu> <hastyCMFH9r.BvD@netcom.com> <1994Mar11.204055.24136@pegasus.com> <hmyNYgS.dysonj@delphi.com> Organization: Pegasus Information Systems Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 17:11:22 GMT Message-ID: <CnA7rG.2tM@pegasus.com> Lines: 15 >>Can a vendor expect today's binaries to remain compatible with future >>releases of these OSes? > >At least in FreeBSD, we are maintaining compatibility with previous versions, >and I think that NetBSD is also maintaining compatibility. Even >IF we go to ELF or COFF as an alternate format, a.out *MAGIC is >here to stay. Of course sometimes there can be problems with >shared libs, etc, and in that case there is probably a better chance >with the FreeBSD/NetBSD scheme of future compatibility because of >the run-time linking. [...] Which spawns another question; what about binary compatibility between FreeBSD and NetBSD? What are the prospects?