From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 19 21:52:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39FD210E6E for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18165; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:51:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36CE4D5E.6C771232@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:51:26 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Greg Lehey , bright@cygnus.rush.net, gurudatt@cs.tamu.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What libraries for socket programs in FreeBSD? References: <199902200105.SAA16481@usr02.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 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. Uh, no. Solaris supports all SunOS 4.x applications with a binary emulation layer that converts SunOS syscalls to Solaris emulation library calls. Some statically linked SunOS 4.x binaries don't work. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message