21 Sep
2017
21 Sep
'17
6:07 p.m.
On 9/21/17 12:01 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
This question is motivated by the posters for whom
FreeBSD is not Unix
enough :-)
Probably the best known contribution of the Berkeley branch of Unix is
the sockets API for IP networking. But today, if for no other reason
than the X/Open group of standards, sockets are the preferred networking
API everywhere, even on true AT&T derived UNIX variants. So they must
have been merged back at some point, or reimplemented. My question is,
when and how did that happen?
AT&T merged the sockets interface into SVR4, starting with the BSD code.
Sun did the work.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/