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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Mon Jun 26 15:32:27 1995
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 14:40:34 -0400
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
To: steven dake <scd@broked.org>
Cc: pthreads@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: steven dake's message of Tue, 27 Jun 1995 06:22:34 -0700
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PS: during setup, the configure script decided that linux doesn't have alot
of system calls that it really does (such as bind, wait, etc as it is not
defined in syscall.h) so I hacked the config.cache file to make it think the
proper system calls were present. Would doing this have the above effect?
Was hacking the config.cache the right thing to do?
No, Linux really doesn't have those system calls. It has library
routines by those names, but they're implemented using other system
calls. E.g., bind is implemented using socketcall, and wait using
wait4 or waitpid or whatever. There's a difference, and in this case,
unlike with most applications, that difference is important.
