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- From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese)
- Subject: Re: Where is wait3?
- Message-ID: <BxItMM.4w7@queernet.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:11:09 GMT
- References: <49475@shamash.cdc.com> <peter.721428913@merlin>
- Organization: QueerNet
- Keywords: wait3
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- In article <peter.721428913@merlin> peter@merlin.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele) writes:
- >I would think that libbsd.a should
- >include everything extra that /bsd43/usr/lib/libc.a defines.
-
- You would think wrong.
-
- The bsd43 systype was developed to support BSD programmers and users; it
- contains a reasonably full implementation of 4.3BSD.
-
- The libbsd in systype sysv was developed to support BSD networking
- programs ported to an SVR3 machine. (Arguably, it should have been
- called "libnet"; it is the "BSD networking compatibility library."
-
- If you wish to port a BSD program to RISCos, you should use systype bsd43.
- (Note that this is "BSD" and not "SunOS"; functionality like shared
- memory which is available in SunOS but not in 4.3BSD is not available in
- systype bsd43, other than via indirection using syscall().)
-
- If you wish to add networking to a program developed in SVR3, you might
- choose to use "-lbsd"...
- --
- ROGER B.A. KLORESE +1 415 ALL-ARFF
- rogerk@unpc.QueerNet.ORG {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!sgiblab!unpc!rogerk
- "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
- -- J. Foster
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