[cap-talk] Google's Native Client (NaCl)

[James A. Donald]

Mark Seaborn wrote:
> I am having a go at porting glibc to NaCl [2] in order to make it
> easier to port software from GNU/Linux to NaCl.  I have got as far as
> running a "hello world" test program with dynamic linking with some of
> NaCl's checks switched off.

Portability seems to me likely to be a lost cause - if it looks enough 
like glibc, probably unsafe.  If unsafe, will not compile. We would be 
better off breaking compatibility and creating message queue oriented 
very high level library of C++ templates, which library will be much 
easier to port in the future.