From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:07:13 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Sockets and the true UNIX In-Reply-To: <20170921160112.ctpv4a52t5rjcqzg@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> References: <20170921160112.ctpv4a52t5rjcqzg@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> Message-ID: 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. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet at case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/