Matthew N. Dodd writes:
> > Excuse? I think glibc is intended to be standard everywhere. As far as I
> > know, it has nothing to do with Linux other than Linux (as usual) is
> > faster to adopt it than some of the "legacy systems".
>
> 'standard' in what sense?
In that it is the base for a common binary format for all Intel Unix
platforms. The idea is for applications to be used on all these systems
without need for recompilation.
> In the sense that Linux uses it you are correct.
No. The others will/should follow.
> I don't expect NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSDI, Solaris, Digital Unix, AIX,
> HPUX, SCO/Unixware etc to use it.
As long as they are not on Intel architecturey ou're probably right.
Michael
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