[copyleft-next] HBR cure for 2013-02-03

"Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" copyleft-next at clacke.user.lysator.liu.se
Sun Feb 10 06:33:49 UTC 2013


On 2013-02-10 13:26, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:53:24PM +0800, "Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" wrote:
>> I only know that before glibc 2.0 it didn't work unpatched on a
>> Linux kernel. Today it may well be entrenched in Linux specifics,
>> but that's not where it came from. I assumed System V would have
>> been the original platform.
>
> Nope, it was originally worked mostly used on embedded systems (think
> Cygnus Support's customers).  Today it works unpatched on Hurd and
> Linux systems.  There are some heavily patched glibc's that can be
> used for *BSD (although the *BSD systems have their own libc).  As far
> as I know, glibc never worked on Solaris... or AIX, HPUX, Tru64,
> Sequent's dynix, etc.

Right. I keep forgetting that glibc did not really originate from GNU.
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    /c


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