Re: klibc development release

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Fri, 09 Aug 2002 23:24:12 -0700


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

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