Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:06:47 +0100 (MET) From: sos@freebsd.org To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iBCS2, socksys and all that jazz... Message-ID: <199511221006.LAA10539@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199511220807.IAA25398@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 22, 95 08:07:58 am
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In reply to Michael Smith who wrote:
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> Ok; having just supped and make-worlded -current, I'm hunting the
> "why doesn't socksys work" problem.
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> There's code in -current for socksys ioctls, but nothing to handle the
> day-to-day open/close stuff needed for these ioctls.
Hmm, the old (broken) socksys driver has been replaced with
a hack that IMHO has its problems too...
> Is this something that's currently under development?
I don't think so, as what we have now is a crude port of the
NetBSD(TM?) code that doesn't do this right either...
You should ask swallace@freebsd.org though as it is his baby now :)
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