Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 02:20:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 02:20:47 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:5384 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 02:20:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3D54B18C.9060500@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 23:24:12 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: andersen@codepoet.org CC: Matti Aarnio , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: klibc development release References: <200208090934.g799YVZe116824@d12relay01.de.ibm.com> <200208091754.g79HsJkN058572@d06relay02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> <3D541018.4050004@zytor.com> <15700.4689.876752.886309@napali.hpl.hp.com> <3D541478.40808@zytor.com> <20020809222736.GJ32427@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <20020810062251.GD2551@codepoet.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 22 Erik Andersen wrote: > 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. > Exactly. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/