Re: Rumpification (was Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/envstat)

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:12:31PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > | I seriously disagree that we should implement all our utils against
 > | the least common denominator of Unix.  That's just an absurd approach
 > | to development.
 > 
 > I did not say that, but most utilities that don't deal with the kernel
 > or particular drivers and/or OS features should be portable enough to
 > compile on other Unix systems without drastic surgery. I've used NetBSD
 > sources in many systems before and they were a tremendous help circumventing
 > native brokenness.

This. This is very important.

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David A. Holland
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