Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux

[Bruce Cran]

On Saturday 22 May 2010 13:55:26 RW wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 2010 05:09:31 -0700
> 
> Anjali Kulkarni <anjali at juniper.net> wrote:
> > I am not sure the right forum to ask this question - is there any
> > effort done to find portable code between different OSes,
> > particularly freebsd and linux?
> 
> BSD code has been used in most operating systems due to its open
> licence, but it's very awkward to mix GNU/Linux GPLed code with BSD
> code without the whole thing ending up GPLed.

The bigger problem perhaps is that Linux has its own way of doing things: 
whereas for example UNIX has traditionally used routing sockets, Linux uses 
netlink. I don't think there's much in the way of common architecture between 
Linux and FreeBSD unfortunately.

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Bruce Cran