From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 18 20:20: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3546D115AD for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:18:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA02303; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:15:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:15:20 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Alex Zepeda Cc: "Alton, Matthew" , "'Gurudatt Shenoy'" , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: RE: What libraries for socket programs in FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Alton, Matthew wrote: > > > > > man socket > > > man connect > > > man listen > > > man bind > > > ... > > > > He didn't ask what they were, he asked *where* they were. > > Yes, and the man pages should and usually do document which external > libraries are needed. Not usually the ones that reside in libc, no, I haven't ever noticed that. I used to have to go looking with nm, when I was new to bsd. Certainly none of these do, and it's pretty common for other OSs to need net libs. I wasn't trying to be critical, but the advice offered no help. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message