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Date:      Sat, 20 Feb 1999 01:05:38 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        bright@cygnus.rush.net, gurudatt@cs.tamu.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What libraries for socket programs in FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <199902200105.SAA16481@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990219145732.B93492@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Feb 19, 99 02:57:32 pm

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> > They are mostly part of libc and therefor linked in by default.  Basically
> > you do not need these libs.  -lsocket is a lame SRV4 (i think) thing because
> > BSD sockets are simulated (poorly) via userland code.
> 
> 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.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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