Re: BSD Fragmentation

Anthk GM <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-07-31, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jun 2026 05:53:26 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:
>
>> One big issue with the BSD variants is that their filesystems are
>> not even compatible.
>
> Even developing software to port between BSD variants is not
> completely straightforward. Look at this
><https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libdvdread/-/compare/e149111f8f69ef291e4d8c166527257c3c86cea4...337c1519ed6ecdd123b07c56d0aceda169b6ae61>:
>
>     #if defined(__linux__) || defined(__GLIBC__)
>         ...
>     #elif defined(__APPLE__)
>         ...
>     #elif defined(__NetBSD__)
>         ...
>     #elif defined(__OpenBSD__)
>         ...
>     #elif defined(__FreeBSD__) && __FreeBSD_version >= 470000
>         ...
>     #elif defined(__DragonFly__)
>         ...
>     #elif defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__sun) || defined(__bsdi__) || defined(_WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(__BEOS__) || defined(__OS2__)
>         ...
>
> All the Linux distros work the same. But every single flavour of BSD
> seems to do things differently.

There are different OSes, not flavours. What did you expect?
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