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bsd compatibility library for Solaris in outland.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Sun Aug 28 02:50:45 1994
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 94 02:50:26 -0400
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
After trying to compile enough BSD-ish software for Solaris, I've
decided that Sun's ucb compatibility library is horribly broken, and
the ucbinclude files are worse.
So, I took about an hour and wrote something better.
To use this library, compile a program with:
-I/mit/outland/include/bsd-solaris
and link it with:
-L/mit/outland/lib -lbsd-solaris
Right now, the library is extremely small/simple, and hasn't been
debugged much. I'd like to make sure some of the stuff (like flock()
and the 32-bit signal mask routines) actually work, and add some more
random stuff (maybe some utmp compatability...).
If you try to use it, please send me suggestions / bug reports and
fixes / success stories. :-)
It's mostly written from scratch by me, with bits and pieces stolen
from the bsd library, the gnu library, and the Solaris ucbinclude
files.
Have a nice day.
-Sal.
