From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 18 20:30:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693F91178A for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:27:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA24189; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:57:35 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA11838; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:57:33 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990219145732.B93492@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:57:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Alfred Perlstein , Gurudatt Shenoy Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: What libraries for socket programs in FreeBSD? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 08:41:41PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 18 February 1999 at 20:41:41 -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Gurudatt Shenoy wrote: > >> >> Pardon my naivete: >> What libraries does one include to compile socket programs in freebsd? >> > solaris?> > > 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. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message