From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 01:13:44 GMT
In article <1paome$b6m@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
>In comp.os.linux, article <1993Mar30.194816.3410@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>,
> lawf@base.bellcore.com (Lawrence Fan) writes:
>>
>> Talking about porting to Linux. I have some questions:
>>
>> 1) Do we have SIGBUS?
>>
>What's SIGBUS? When is it triggered? Why do you need it?
SIGBUS is the result of a bus error (usually access to words on odd addresses)
Thing never occurs on a 386/486 and is therefore not used. Just comment out
any code that uses it.
>> 2) I see there are include files under /usr/include that has the
>> same file names as /usr/src/linux/include/linux. As we update
>> the linux kernel version, the files under /usr/src/linux/include/linux
>> gets updated but not the ones in /usr/include. Why is that?
>>
>Possibly because they have different contents. More likely than not, the
>version in /usr/include just contains a #include <linux/whatever.h>.
The headers in /usr/include/{linux,asm} are dependant on your version of
the kernel and they come with it. The other headers depend on the library
and come with it.
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