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From: chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ELF and dynamic loading (Re: 386BSD vs Linux)
Date: 1 Dec 94 16:18:03
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In-reply-to: christos@deshaw.com's message of Fri, 25 Nov 1994 19:08:29 GMT

In article <Czu7u5.D7J@deshaw.com> christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
>Actually the problem is not the ioctl's! These are simple to implement on
>top of the existing terminal driver. The problem is missing subsystems
>such as streams, tli, etc. which are used to implement the networking code.
>And you need the networking code to run any X application...
>Another problem is pty implementation; fortunately only a handful of
>applications use ptys.

Bsd doesn't have streams or tli.