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Message-ID: <20120518185123.GA33876@intma.in>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 14:51:23 -0400
From: Kurt H Maier <khm-lists@...ma.in>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: gcc segfault at src/mman/mlockall.c

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 08:43:33PM +0200, Jens Staal wrote:
> > obase-musl still lacks a lot due to many legacy syscalls musl probably
> > won't implement.
> >
> > --
> > Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@...il.com>  http://chneukirchen.org
> 
> Could libbsd help with those?

Is it really worth adding on more and more cruft just to get a base
system working?  In my opinion it would be better to flesh out sbase[1]
or something like it.  Requiring a compatibility shim for your core
utilities sounds like a bad day waiting to happen.

[1] - http://hg.suckless.org/sbase

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