Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:44:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, grog@lemis.com, bright@cygnus.rush.net, gurudatt@cs.tamu.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What libraries for socket programs in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199902201944.MAA10350@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <36CE4D5E.6C771232@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at Feb 19, 99 10:51:26 pm
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> > > Some System V implementations have native sockets. > > > > Specifically, for Solaris to be able to run statically linked SunOS 4.x > > binaries, it must support the socket family of calls a system calls. > > Uh, no. Solaris supports all SunOS 4.x applications with a binary > emulation layer that converts SunOS syscalls to Solaris emulation > library calls. Some statically linked SunOS 4.x binaries don't > work. Back when Weber State first purchased the new "icarus", and renamed the older SunOS 4.1.3 box to "cs", icarus was the first Solaris 2.x box there. I submitted a number of bugs to Sun, having to do with statically linked SunOS 4.1.3 binaries (including the X game "NodeRunner", my "LodeRunner" clone). I figured "what the hell?", since Weber had a support contract, and didn't have to pay per incident. In order to close these bug reports, Sun had to implement, among other things, a select(2) system call on Solaris. They did this in Solaris 2.3. I still have the trouble ticket resoloution email (somewhere). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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