From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 15 17: 0:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4ve.mailsrvcs.net (smtp4vepub.gte.net [206.46.170.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3ED37B401 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:00:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-117-21.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.117.21]) by smtp4ve.mailsrvcs.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA41680058; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 00:00:35 GMT Message-ID: <3B2AA1A2.B8261530@bellatlantic.net> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:00:34 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? References: <20010615135713Y.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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