Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:00:34 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? Message-ID: <3B2AA1A2.B8261530@bellatlantic.net> References: <20010615135713Y.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > I've had several marketing types approach me recently for details as > to whether or not Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack and/or user > utilities, and though it's always been "common knowledge" in the > community that they were, when I set about to "prove" it I found it to > be less easy than I'd thought. I've strings'd various binaries and > DLLs in my copy of Windows 98 but have yet to find anything resembling > proof. Does anyone out there have any details or discovery techniques > for confirming or disproving this assertion either way? It would be > very useful (for us) from a PR standpoint to know. I know one way but it's a hard one: disassemble and manually decomiple the code and compare it with the BSD code. I've once done such a research on the HP-UX pty code (for other reasons) and it matched the BSD code practically exactly except for the added spin locks. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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