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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!crcnis1.unl.edu!news.unomaha.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.umass.edu!news2.near.net!MathWorks.Com!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!uunet!newsie.dmc.com!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Info on NetBSD & FreeBSD Date: 25 Jul 1994 20:52:35 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 47 Message-ID: <3118mj$ipr@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <30ur2j$ege@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu Keywords: NetBSD, FreeBSD In article <30ur2j$ege@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>, Andrej Gabara <gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE> wrote: >(2) Has dld been ported to either FreeBSD and/or NetBSD? If not, will it be > available on NetBSD 1.0 or FreeBSD 2.0? So far as I know, the answer is ``no''. However, both systems include an implementation of Sun's `dlopen'/`dlsym' interface, which will probably do what you want even though it works somewhat differently in practice. >(3) Which, FreeBSD or NetBSD, has better POSIX support? Or are they pretty much > the same (I'm especially interested in POSIX pseudo tty interfaces) J.T. Conklin has done an excellent job with this for NetBSD. Verifiable POSIX compliance has thus far not been a high priority for FreeBSD, although we're happy to fix POSIX-compliance bugs if someone points them out and provides appropriate code to fix them. At some point in time someone will probably try to get a FIPS 151 test suite going and do some real verification (or at least document the deficiencies, if we think POSIX got it wrong). >(5) When are FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0 coming out? FreeBSD 2.0 should be out before the end of the summer. I don't want to promise a specific date because there's still a lot of work that needs to be done. While the most challenging difficulties have probably been solved, there are a large number of more tedious tasks which need to be accomplished, like moving over some device drivers and general code cleanup. >(6) Do FreeBSD or NetBSD support a MSDOS filesystem such as Linux? Yes. At the moment, NetBSD's is rumored to be more robust. So far as I know, neither system supports the Linux mechanism for emulating a real filesystem on top of the DOS fs, or anything remotely like it. However, with the new ``stackable'' filesystem technology from 4.4BSD, it should be much easier to actually write such a filesystem layer. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant