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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
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On Sat Aug 10, 2002 at 01:27:36AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>   glibc folks are (to an extreme pain) supporting kernels 2.0
>   (if not from before) to current bleeding edge, and emulating
>   all fancy dancing available with new system services by doing
>   some weird gimmicks..

The glibc folks care about binary compatibility.  klibc doesn't
need to care about such things, and therefore need not care about
such baggage.

 -Erik

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