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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!gateway.dircsa.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!apanix.apana.org.au!hart From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 support the following ? Date: 29 Jul 94 14:36:25 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 45 Message-ID: <hart.775492585@apanix.apana.org.au> References: <wgalazka.157.2E3388E4@chem.uw.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au Keywords: FreeBSD wgalazka@chem.uw.edu.pl (Wojciech Galazka) writes: >Hi all, >Can anyone tell me if FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 supports the following > (as Solaris 2.1 does): > >1 shared libraries yes. >2 runtime linkable device drivers If you mean "plonk driver.o in kernel directory and reboot to start driver" then (from my experience) no. Full source is provided for the kernel (and everything else for that matter) so configuring drivers in and out of the kernel is as simple as editing one file (eg: FOO) and typing 'config FOO; cd /sys/compile/FOO;make clean depend all' and copying the freshly compiled kernel to / (after making a backup of course!) >3 memory mapped files (i.e. a file can be manipulated with the same functions >as memory yes. >4 filesystem mapped processes If you mean processes are mapped into /proc, then yes. >5 file sharing If you mean file locking, yes FreeBSD has numerous file locking/sharing mechanisms. I speak for no one but myself. Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | C/- PO Box 758 | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | North Adelaide SA 5006 |