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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 23:39:21 -0600
From: Phil Brutsche <brutsche@uswest.net>
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Subject: Re: POSIX.2 compliance ?
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Martijn van Buul wrote:
> 
> A wild thought raced through my mind last night:
> 
> Would it be feasable to make Minix POSIX.2 compliant ? I haven't been
> able to obtain a 'clean' list of POSIX.2 specific functions, but it
> might make porting software somewhat easier..

You could conceivably port glibc 2.x to Minix - the lack of shared
libraries would make it painful, though.  And it would probably take
the vm sub system of Minix-vmd to handle it...

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