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NetBSD is an advanced unix-like operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. It is open source and licensed under the BSD license.

This tag should be used for question pertaining specifically to the NetBSD operating system. In keeping with the intent of SO, this is limited to programming, not such things as use, installation, configuration, or maintenance. Such questions generally belong on Superuser if related to personal/workstation use, or on ServerFault if related to use as a server.

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Why u_area is removed in FreeBSD and NetBSD

I had been heard that There is member called u_area in the proc structure on BSD. So I tried to find u_area, but only to fail. Anyone who knows why the u_area was removed on proc structure?
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gnustep for netbsd

I'd like to ask if gnustep's toolchain is appropriate for netbsd development where one'd normally use plain C. I'm interested in the benefits of Obj-C only with basic APIs like NSObject's reference counting and dynamic stuff. My question is…
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Reentrancy or not with this netbsd code

I am studying on "reading code" by reading pieces of NetBSD source code. (for whoever is interested, it's < Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective > I'm reading) And I found this function: /* convert IP address to a string, but not into a single…
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wsdisplay color map not being retrieved correctly

I've been trying to use wscons and wsdisplay on NetBSD 5.1.2 (using the VESA framebuffer implementation) recently and I've encountered a bit of a problem: I can set color maps successfully and they look correct but getting color maps seems to return…
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Inputs for Porting Perl

I am a very new to porting. I was trying to port perl to a netbsd system. Since its a custom made build, we wont be able to run configure or make on the target netbsd system. So we are trying to cross-compile it in a host pc and copy the binary over…
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How to substitute libedit readline with GNU readline on Mac OS

On my Mac OS (Moneterey 12.1) I see $NetBSD: readline.h, v 1.33 2012/05/15 which I guess is a part of libedit library. I want to use readline.h which is a part of GNU readline library. Is it possible to do that? And what steps should I…
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How do you conditionally compile based on a target triple?

Is it possible to conditionally compile for a specific target triple? I’m having issues with excluding the x86_64-rumprun-netbsd target without simply excluding netbsd with a #[cfg].
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NetBSD build failing due to .DS_Store file Macintosh

I am trying to build the NetBSD kernel using $ ./build.sh -O ../obj.amd64 -U -u -m amd64 -j4 tools release iso-image It fails with the output ======= 1 extra files in DESTDIR ========= Files in DESTDIR but missing from flist. File is obsolete…
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netbsd pthread_create SIGABRT

We try to port our virtual machine on Net Bsd 7.0 (amd64). Already ported from Linux to Free BSD and Open BSD, among others, with success. We have several issues on a fresh and standard install of Net BSD. Code is compiled with gcc and the…
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pkgsrc directory linking /usr/pkg with /usr

I bootstrapped pkgsrc on non-netbsd os, and building applications from source and running the binaries both work. the /usr/pkg directory contains bin/ etc/ include/ lib/ man/ sbin/ share/ directories, and I can't find any documentation about…
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High availability clustering in netbsd

We need to do high availability clustering on one of our system. I have found sum of the tools like HA-Lvm from RedHat, but it is not supported with netbsd. We need a scenario where the applications should run optimally in active/passive (failover)…
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