Re: [MiNT] "pid 80 (conholio) : unifs: couldn't match a drive with a directory"

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 18:31 +0200, Peter Persson wrote:
> 26 jul 2010 kl. 18.25 skrev Alan Hourihane:
> 
> > You should take that with some context.
> > 
> > If you build new software against the newer MiNTlib then it can take
> > advantage of new system calls which are not present in older kernels.
> > Depending on how the software is written it may not fail gracefully if a
> > system call fails.
> 
> Phew, that sounds better.
> 
> What's the policy on TOS compatibility and compatibility with older kernels? Mintlib used to have some degree of emulation for TOS built in, right?

And that's still the case.

> > Now, this is really with new unix style software, but for Atari software
> > compiled against the mintlib it's unlikely to take advantage of these
> > new system calls so should work just as well with old kernels as new
> > kernels.
> 
> Any particular system/library calls to worry about?

New calls are fchdir, fdopendir and dirfd which don't have TOS
requirements so aren't TOS related.

Alan.