From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 13 3:45:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834D837B725 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 03:45:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2DBjfb15061; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 03:45:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 03:45:41 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: David Malone Cc: Shankar Agarwal , bsd hackers Subject: Re: Question regarding the funcation socket()... Message-ID: <20010313034541.R29888@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3AAD7114.A01DE452@net.com> <20010312171828.Q18351@fw.wintelcom.net> <3AAD79BB.F2B53814@net.com> <20010312175005.B29888@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010313113426.A44321@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010313113426.A44321@walton.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:34:26AM +0000 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David Malone [010313 03:34] wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 05:50:05PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > Can you explain _why_ this isn't working, like an error message, maybe? > > It doesn't work 'cos the socket library call is not written in C, > so grepping/cscoping won't find it. It is generated from socket.S, > which seems to be produced by a line in src/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc > which does: > > printf '#include "SYS.h"\nRSYSCALL(${.PREFIX})\n' > ${.TARGET} > > That make file includes various other makefiles which produce the > list of syscalls which should be compiled into the library. David, I was asking Shankar to give more reasonable explanations as to why things weren't working. If you check my first message to him there's the suggestion to do a "make world" and pipe the output to a file to look for this. y'know, teach a man to fish... :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message