From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 17 01:05:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA01268 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 01:05:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA01255 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 01:05:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA22794; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:05:26 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA20980; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:05:25 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA10092; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 09:40:25 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603170840.JAA10092@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Application Development (fwd) To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 09:40:25 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Narvi" at Mar 16, 96 10:31:18 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (Moved to -chat) As Narvi wrote: > Could some just fish out a reference to a > real RDBMS (no toys - I mean something like Oracle, Gupta, Informix, ^^^^^^^^ > etc.) running on FreeBSD so that I would not have to throw it out of my > server and replace it with Windows NT or OS/2 when the money for the > database arrives (and it will). I recently had to ``truss'' an informix on a SysV. Oh well... Do you know what they're doing in order to create a new directory? They execute /bin/mkdir (from inside a C program). !!! This makes me really worry about the quality of their code... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)