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Re: talk/talkd on solaris 2.8
From: |
Alain Magloire |
Subject: |
Re: talk/talkd on solaris 2.8 |
Date: |
Thu, 6 Sep 2001 00:41:40 -0400 (EDT) |
Bonjour
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Michael Weiser wrote:
>
> > Don't know whether this is a good idea since I also have some NeXTstep 3.3
> > boxes which certainly haven't heard of utmpx yet.
> I see it's not a prob since it's far away from compiling on NeXTstep
> anyways. :-\
>
> > BTW: I just saw at least one unneeded #ifdef which I'll take out for the
> > IRIX compile and submit together with the rest.
> Patch is attached.
Patch applied, Thank you.
> > > > Apropos IRIX: Is there some need for experiences with IRIX 6.5? I have
> > > IRIX, is not on my list of target for the release, but if you have time
> > > to poke around, I will not refuse clean patches.
> > I'll have a look.
> Unfortunately it doesn't compile as easily as on Solaris. ftpd uses
> strsignal, which doesn't exist on IRIX and talkd has some problems with
I did not realize we were using strsignal(). Fixed, by providing
an implementation for plaforms lacking it.
> socklen_t and other socket related stuff which I don't have time to figure
> out right now.
Strange, we do not use any socklen_t, this part of the recent POSIX.1g std
it usually.
typedef unsigned int socklen_t
> Also newest IRIX upgrade to 6.5.13 seems to fix the wacky
> talkd. So I'll again leave it as it is for now.
Ok.
Thanks again.
--
alain