henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (08/23/88)
In article <3125@homxc.UUCP> dwc@homxc.UUCP (Malaclypse the Elder) writes: >i would also like to add that i believe henry is again confusing >kernel portability with application portability... One has to be careful about terms here, but as I've said before, the kernel is useless without the standard utilities, so the two are not really separate problems. Portability of applications which are not part of "standard Unix" (whatever that is) is indeed a somewhat different problem, but I didn't think that had come up. >... any specific kernel portability problems that the System V >developers have 'gratuitously' added. Well, apart from the -1 return on shared-memory system calls, and the excessive device-dependence of certain parts of the SV kernel, I don't know of any in particular... but I don't work with that kernel very much. -- Intel CPUs are not defective, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology they just act that way. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu