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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!main.Germany.EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 10 Feb 1997 12:21:19 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 50 Message-ID: <5dn3rv$pr7@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5feb63.93l.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F73973.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d7spf$8n6@web.nmti.com> <5d8ikn$801$1@venus.mcs.net> <5dd0p1$72n@innocence.interface-business.de> <5dekt3$aiu$1@venus.mcs.net> <5dfpah$cre@innocence.interface-business.de> <5dindm$42i$1@venus.mcs.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:158148 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2483 les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) wrote: > >Huh? Did you even hear about comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc? That ain't > Yes, but as I said, a dejanews search for drivers found only questions > on the *bsd groups at the time, no answers. There may very well > have been answers earlier on the mailing lists, but how was I supposed > to find them? You could have posted your question there. The more people are posting the same question, the more likely it is that some of those who can do something for it will notice it. Sure, sending a mail to bugs@freebsd.org might have got you the same in a simpler way. But we _do_ follow Usenet, as the time permits. (I've got a day job as well, even though i'm right now posting from there.) > >I don't know about its Linux emulation, but i would suspect it does it > >by a layer in the library. If so, the emulation should automatically > >pick up them. > > I'd expect this to work for binaries, but you need termio.h to > compile. Linux has one. Sure, but you've been asking for the emulation. Nobody has setup a Linux cross-compilation environment under FreeBSD anyway, so the missing termio.h is a moot point. > Agreed, it wouldn't be an unreasonable task to change, but I have several > programs (phone smdr, a bunch of wire services including real time commodity > exchange data that get turned into screen updates and multiplexed out on a > satellite uplink) and need to keep them working under sysV also for a All recent SysV's do have termios as well. Only SVR3.2's didn't, but they are a very aged technology these days. > while. It probably saved a couple of days work to avoid #ifdef'ing > and testing everything that would have to compile both ways. (In other > words, more time than I'd ever expect to save even if freeBSD does > have faster network code...). Again, if you care to contribute a termio emulation layer for FreeBSD, we don't mind including it into libcompat. Nobody has been pressed to do this yet. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j