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Subject: Re: iBCS2, socksys and all that jazz...
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:06:47 +0100 (MET)
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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:
> 
> 
> Ok; having just supped and make-worlded -current, I'm hunting the
> "why doesn't socksys work" problem.
> 
> 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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