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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10649 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5229 comp.unix.bsd:13169 comp.windows.x.i386unix:6021 biz.sco.general:9651 Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,biz.sco.general Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh.wariat.org!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: SCO market share References: <2eocag$ce1@u.cc.utah.edu> <1993Dec18.215841.28755@i88.isc.com> <1993Dec19.234703.7824@kf8nh.wariat.org> <1993Dec20.215905.16082@i88.isc.com> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1993 02:14:15 GMT Message-ID: <1993Dec22.021415.22741@kf8nh.wariat.org> Lines: 24 In article <1993Dec20.215905.16082@i88.isc.com>, stevea@lachman.com (Steve Alexander) says: +--------------- | In article <1993Dec19.234703.7824@kf8nh.wariat.org> bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: | >Didn't he say he was talking about Xenix, not SCO Unix? | | As far as I can tell from the original article, the only complaint about XENIX | was that select didn't work on STREAMS file-descriptors. I am 99% sure that | select is also a system call in XENIX. Unfortunately, I left my XENIX 2.3 | source tape in my other pants, so I can't verify either issue right now ;-> +--------------- ...hmm, what about that "select" ioctl in the header files, then? (I was experimenting with STREAMS-based ham radio networking under Xenix... dropped it like a hot potato when I discovered the lack of documentation for the network subsystem.) Not that this is particularly relevant to the discussion... ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca Do not taunt Happy Fun Coder. (seen on the Net...)