Fwd: Netscape 6 on Nano-X

[Rosimildo da Silva]

Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
> Chris Caudle wrote:
> >
> > Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > > Any idea how much POSIX/UNIX
> > > is really required by Mozilla?
> >
> > It has ports to *nix, Win32, MacOS, and OpenVMS.
> > How much POSIX support could it really need to run on Mac  and VMS?
> 
> OpenVMS has POSIX.  I can't speak on the MacOS.
> 
> I am concerned about process-forking, shared memory, locking memory,
> dynamic loading, etc.  Things that are beyond RTEMS at the moment.
> 

Mozilla has a run-time layer called "NetScape Portable Runtime" that
encapsulates all OS dependent stuff. Get this layer ported would
be the first step to check what is really needed.


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