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

[Peter Persson <pep.fishmoose@gmail.com>]

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?

> 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?

-- PeP