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From: cagney@highland.oz.au (Andrew Cagney)
Subject: Re: ANDREW for FreeBSD? (AUIS-6.3/*BSD)
Message-ID: <1994Jun23.032429.2387@highland.oz.au>
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Reply-To: cagney@hls0.highland.oz.au (Andrew Cagney)
Organization: Highland Logic, Moss Vale, Australia
References: <772108026.AA07182@f74.n700.z6.ftn.air.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 03:24:29 GMT
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TO: wollman
>This is a pity, since if it works on the named versions, then
>that
>means that it isn't using dlopen() and the built-in
>shared-library
>support. It should.
Call it a pragmatic decision.
I could have:
a) Used dlopen() or what ever NetBSD-current and FreeBSD-*
use.
b) Used the jump table code and have a good chance of it
working on all the *BSD os's.
I chose b. Several reasons:
o I had to do it any way for NetBSD-0.9
o It kept things simple. All three *BSD's have common
configuration files and code.
o There wasn't the time. The NetBSD-current patches and
my `informed' guesses for FreeBSD only just made it
into AUIS-6.3.
Be happy, at least AUIS supports *BSD :-)
Andrew
PS: Could the patches need for FreeBSD please be posted. I'm interested
in knowing what I guessed wrong.