mhoffos@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca (12/16/90)
Up to now, I have had no complaints with ESIX. However, I have started
messing with X windows programming (due in a large part to Herr Roell's X386
server -- thanks Thomas!). I am trying to get xtrek to work. Everything
compiles (well more on that a little later) but she don't run. I get a 'bus
error' when it attempts the 'listen' call after it has set up the socket. (Why
is it called a bus error when it is sig 10 -- a TSS violation?)
At first, I thought it was just something weird, but I couldn't get anything
to work. I then got a friend (who is quite an expert on sockets actually) to
try things out, and he can't get listen to work either. It always dumps core
at the same spot. Has anyone tried sockets on ESIX? Can anyone give me the
magic incantations necessary to get listen to work?
Also -- where can I get hold of the GNU dbm library source? In order to
get xtrek to compile, I sort of commented out the player database stuff ...
Mike Hoffos
BTW: My forte is not inter-process communication -- it is real low-level
device-driver stuff (like sound chip drivers -- I am dabbling with the
Soundblaster, but I think it ain't gonna fly under UNIX).
Disclaimer? We don't need no stikin' disclaimer ...