At 06:20 PM 11/23/2005, you wrote:
Speaking of which, and getting back on topic a little bit, I wonder if the Linux-based Palm OS will even have a libc. It's not absolutely necessary that it would. After all, Palm OS doesn't have one right now. (There is no malloc(), printf(), chmod(), fork(), etc.) In other words, I wonder if the PalmSource is porting Palm OS to run on top of the Linux system calls or on top of the libc library calls. It could be done either way.
Palm OS Cobalt used the BSD version of libc altered to use the Cobalt services. Since Palm OS for Linux is based on the work done for Cobalt, I expect that some C library will be provided.
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