From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 19 17: 6: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B13C411CA5 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:05:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21823; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:05:53 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd021795; Fri Feb 19 18:05:49 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA16481; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:05:41 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902200105.SAA16481@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: What libraries for socket programs in FreeBSD? To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 01:05:38 +0000 (GMT) Cc: bright@cygnus.rush.net, gurudatt@cs.tamu.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990219145732.B93492@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Feb 19, 99 02:57:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 --- 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