Re: Glibc-based Debian GNU/KNetBSD

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:46:19PM -0500, Perry E.Metzger wrote:
> 
> IMHO, the amount of work involved in making glibc stably work with
> scheduler activations is likely prohibitive. You'll be chasing
> problems in the library forever.

First we'll merge the patchset in upstream. Then we'll have problems for a
while, similarly to those the GNU/Hurd port has fixing Glibc every time it
breaks for them.

But unlike GNU/Hurd, at some point upstream developers will install GNU/K*BSD
themselves and maintain it for us.

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)