Re: [ANNOUNCE] klibc 0.1 release

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>]

On Tue, 08 Jan 2002, Felix von Leitner wrote:

> I understand that's OK for diet hotplug, so it's OK to take just enough
> code to make your project work.  The important question probably is
> whether diet hotplug will be part of the kernel distribution or not.
> If not, I don't think it makes much sense to not just reference the diet
> libc.  Maybe we can put the diet libc distribution on ftp.kernel.org to
> show the affinity better (and make it more widely mirrored).
> 
> But forking means you will have to watch our CVS and port stuff from
> here to there every now and then.

More importantly, the dietlibc compilation units are tiny, so even
linking against dietlibc itself is probably not much different in
outcome than a spinoff.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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