RE: New file system IDs and others.

["Howard Chu" <chu@platinum.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katherine L Ellis [mailto:kellis@primenet.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 27, 1998 1:13 AM
> Cc: mintlist
> Subject: Re: New file system IDs and others.
>
>
> Well I have been reading a lot lately here. And I don't quite agree
> with many people comments, such as: "Like in magic."
> Like if it EVEN correctly worked.
> Shared lib? like magic? why would MiNT need the magic one?
> compatibility reason? We haveto stay clear, and know what we want, do
> we want magic compatibility with their own way of doing? or more
> likely to be closest to unix shared lib? Are the unix shared lib even
> thinkable on atari? if yes, why did magic adopt their own? What is
> stoping us to use more standard way of doing?
>
"The Unix shared lib implementation" isn't terribly interesting for a number
of reasons:
	it requires a PMMU, and my scheme doesn't
	68K unix is almost nonexistent these days anyway
	Besides Sun, almost nobody implemented the SVR4 68K ABI standard
	   and Sun didn't really correctly implement the spec either
However, while it's not interesting to use it directly, it's instructive to
understand how the 68K Unix implementation worked, or was meant to work in
its spec.

As for Magic compatibility - I wonder myself. After all, we're here to talk
about MiNT; I've never even seen Magic. Having worked with Unix for a dozen
or
so years, and MiNT for going on a decade, I'll stick with what I know...