On Jul 25, 2008, Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I assume that glibc had to be re-written to accommodate the Linux > kernel. Nah. Rewritten is a large exaggeration. Most of GNU libc is independent of whatever kernel is running under it, and that's how it should be. Only the thin system call lower layer has to be retargeted. That's what enables GNU libc to offer the same API and, at times, even the same ABI, while targeting very different kernels. > Who did that port?? Linus and his team? Most certainly. I can't quite picture the GNU project putting resources into the early development of GNU+Linux to make the combination usable. Linux was not perceived as a relevant kernel for the GNU operating system back then. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
