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Note where to find source code of FreeBSD and Solaris;
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downstream maintainers.
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Perhaps some other distributions have similar facilities, but these are the
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only one I know about so far.
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only ones I know about so far.
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Testing New Features
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kernels from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/.
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Build and install the kernel, and test new features with test
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programs. Since the declarations of new system calls probably
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won't yet be in your (g)libc, the use of syscall() or _syscallN()
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may be required; see the intro(2) manual page.
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won't yet be in your (g)libc, the use of syscall() may be required;
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see the syscall(2) manual page.
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All the world is not Linux
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clues about interfaces that are/aren't present on other Unix
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implementations.
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Source code
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-----------
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The source code of some other Unix implementations is available,
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and useful to study to determine undocumented details of behaviour
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on those systems.
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Instructions on how to get the source code of Open Solaris
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can be found here (you'll need to install Mercurial ("hg")):
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http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/hg-build-snapshots/
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The FreeBSD source code is avaiulable via anonymous CVS as described here:
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http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html
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You'll want a command something like the following:
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cvs -d freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co src
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Release Philosophy
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the man pages (such as the dedicated Alain Portal, in recent
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times) sometimes like to do this.
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Being a good free software citizen
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