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Date:      Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:57:32 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@cygnus.rush.net>, Gurudatt Shenoy <gurudatt@cs.tamu.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: What libraries for socket programs in FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <19990219145732.B93492@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990218203910.10060P-100000@cygnus.rush.net>; from Alfred Perlstein on Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 08:41:41PM -0500
References:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.990218183455.8485C-100000@dilbert> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990218203910.10060P-100000@cygnus.rush.net>

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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?
>> <Specifically, what are the freebsd equivalents of lnsl and lsocket on
>> 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
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