Re: PROPOSAL: making liblinux_net library

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Peter Novodvorsky <nidd@alt-linux.org> writes:

> 1). I propose to move all linux code out of pfinet and make separated
>  library with linux ip stack. 

This is not a horrible idea, and I once thought of doing the same
thing myself.

However, two things block the idea:

1) The amount of Hurd specific code in pfinet is really quite small,
   and any changes to the Linux code would require rethinking some of
   the Hurd code.  Moving the Hurd code into a library wouldn't really
   change it all that much; it would still be necessary to change it
   anytime the Linux code changes materially.

2) A much better thing is just a real native implementation.

Thomas