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<janneke>there's probably something i don't see/understand about how qemu works

<janneke>it looks like you can only transparantly run binaries from other processor architectures if you're on the same kernel

<youpi>all the "user" thing of qemu does is translating the system numbers/parameters etc.

<janneke>which means that if you want to build for the hurd from gnu/linux, you need a vm (which is still pretty nice)

<youpi>so it can't be cross-OS

<janneke>that's still pretty clever

<janneke>riscv doesn't have open, stat, iirc; but only openat, fstatat, etc

<youpi>that's not a problem, it's trivial to translate

<janneke>ACTION has been using qemu-binfmt to build for riscv and then wondered if that would work for the hurd

<janneke>possibly, but it needs attention and work

<janneke>and if it's so trivial, thet why oh why doesn't linux do this transparently?

<janneke>now everyone writing something like a libc needs to cater for all these exceptions

<youpi>because linux doesn't care about having several libc implementations

<janneke>it feels like a waste of resources for our community

<youpi>heya VedantT :)

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