From owner-cvs-lib Thu Oct 17 13:39:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-lib Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA28123 for cvs-lib-outgoing; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:39:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA28108; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA02884; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:36:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <32669832.1CFBAE39@whistle.com> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:33:54 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: Paul Richards , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-lib@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net Makefile.inc References: <4764.845579046@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I thought they did a novel filesystem, > > in which case I thought they'd be using the XNS stuff rather > > than the raw NS stuff.. > > Nope, they extended the "raw NS" stuff into something far more. It > supports SPX II, multiple ethernet types, some hundred-odd weird > ioctls, etc etc. Now that netns is back, work will begin on bringing > in their changes - Netcon has formally adopted the code and apologises > for dropping the ball earlier when Garrett called out for supporters > and noone raised their hand. well then might it be a worthwhile thing to ask them to look at intgrating teh XNS functionallity i to the original NS tree so that we don't need both? >