Re: Getting system info from the kernel

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 04:57:50 +0000


On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 09:47:11PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:

> > Am I mad or is part of the problem that *everything* is in glibc?
>
> It's neither in glibc nor in any other common library. Which is
> the problem.

Indeed; but why not create a common library which is developed along side the
kernel? Basically, the user-space portion of the system (or the API, anyway).
We could move some of platform dependent stuff from (g)libc, too.

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