dsm@prism.gatech.EDU (Daniel McGurl) (04/06/91)
I'm the system administrator for a Unisys 6000/70 running dynix/PTX 1.1, and I need a socket library for the machine. I was wondering if anyone out there had written a standard socket library to run on top of streams? A version running under PTX would be great, but any such pacakage would be welcome, or failing that any advice about how to write one would be helpful. Anyone know why PTX excluded a socket library? Seems like a useful thing to have. At any rate, I've been told PTX 2.0 will have a socket library again, but I need to put something in place until PTX 2.0 is released. Thanks, in advance. --Danny McGurl
csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) (04/10/91)
In article <25643@hydra.gatech.EDU> dsm@prism.gatech.EDU (Daniel McGurl) writes: >Anyone know why PTX excluded a socket library? Because SVR3 doesn't have a socket library. That means Sequent has to acquire one from somewhere else, or write it themselves; either way, some decisions have to be made about how to integrate and some engineering has to be done. Given that the lack of System V was a major headache for Unisys, I'd bet they were sufficiently anxious to have a real SVR3 that they weren't about to hold it up for a non-standard socket library. <csg>