Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 01:05:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: bright@cygnus.rush.net, gurudatt@cs.tamu.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What libraries for socket programs in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199902200105.SAA16481@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990219145732.B93492@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Feb 19, 99 02:57:32 pm
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> > They are mostly part of libc and therefor linked in by default. Basically > > you do not need these libs. -lsocket is a lame SRV4 (i think) thing because > > BSD sockets are simulated (poorly) via userland code. > > Some System V implementations have native sockets. Specifically, for Solaris to be able to run statically linked SunOS 4.x binaries, it must support the socket family of calls a system calls. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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