Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:15:20 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: "Alton, Matthew" <Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com>, "'Gurudatt Shenoy'" <gurudatt@cs.tamu.edu>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: What libraries for socket programs in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902182312160.320-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902182009210.254-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Alton, Matthew wrote: > > > > > man socket > > > man connect > > > man listen > > > man bind > > > ... > > > > He didn't ask what they were, he asked *where* they were. > > Yes, and the man pages should and usually do document which external > libraries are needed. Not usually the ones that reside in libc, no, I haven't ever noticed that. I used to have to go looking with nm, when I was new to bsd. Certainly none of these do, and it's pretty common for other OSs to need net libs. I wasn't trying to be critical, but the advice offered no help. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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