Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:57:23 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: jmallett@xMach.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? Message-ID: <20010615145723I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010615174835.N99254-100000@Dalek.xMach.ORG> References: <20010615144235I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010615174835.N99254-100000@Dalek.xMach.ORG>
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From: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@xMach.org> Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:50:00 -0400 (EDT) > Well, looking through headers, a lot of stuff says "taken from the BSD > file...", namely winsock.h and winsock2.h, at the very least it appears > they have designed it with some goal of being backwards compatible with > BSD sockets by using BSD structures, functions, whatever, but the actual > winsock code may or may not be taken from BSD. > > Is there anyone at Microsoft you could ask? Not really, I don't have any contacts there. Sigh. I didn't think proving this would be quite so hard. :( - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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