On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 11:45:33AM +0700, Lewi wrote:
> I want to know about how Linux developer porting BSD to Linux, like
> ping BSD's source, I see that there has many different comparing ping
> that I get it from iputils-xx.src.rpm
>
> so how the process go??
> is there any documentation that discuss about this??
Porting is generally pretty easy if you're a developer. I've been porting
between flavors of Unix since the early '80s, and it's no different than
dealing with Linux as a variant of Unix. If they don't use any BSD-only
system calls, you're just dealing with library presence and/or differences
in functions. If there are any special syscalls--doubtful, for most--you
have to identify cognate calls in Linux and conditionalize the code.
Cheers,
--
Dave Ihnat
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