From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 15 14:57:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDFA37B405 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:57:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5FLvNt59231; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:57:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 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? In-Reply-To: <20010615174835.N99254-100000@Dalek.xMach.ORG> References: <20010615144235I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010615174835.N99254-100000@Dalek.xMach.ORG> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010615145723I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:57:23 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 16 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Joseph Mallett 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