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Date:      Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:51:26 -0700
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, bright@cygnus.rush.net, gurudatt@cs.tamu.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What libraries for socket programs in FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <36CE4D5E.6C771232@softweyr.com>
References:  <199902200105.SAA16481@usr02.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Uh, no.  Solaris supports all SunOS 4.x applications with a binary
emulation layer that converts SunOS syscalls to Solaris emulation
library calls.  Some statically linked SunOS 4.x binaries don't
work.

-- 
       "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                 Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr                      wes@softweyr.com


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