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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!mrg From: mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green) Subject: Re: ffs & sunos? Message-ID: <mrg.785843913@dynamo> Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 References: <3ahflh$og3@spruce.cic.net> <scottr-1811941644050001@sarmac.acs.nmu.edu> <3alvli$ssg@fido.asd.sgi.com> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 09:58:33 GMT Lines: 23 lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) writes: : 1) Fix the known deficiencies in SunOS 4/Solaris 1. These include, but : are not limited to, resolving (no pun) the DNS/NIS brain damage, : implementing BSD 4.4-style shared libraries, and adding a BSD 4.4 : filesystem. In fact, they could eliminate dependencies on the AT&T/USL : code entirely, while they're at it, to cut any royalty costs (which I : would assume they are paying USL). DNS/NIS is pretty good in SunOS, better than most peoples. What do you want fixed? How should it work? how about not needing nis running to have real access to the dns? sure, you can link programs with -lresolv, or fiddle with libc.so, but this doesn't help the statically linked programs very much. 4.4 BSD style shared libraries *are* SunOS shared libs; Sun donated the code. 4.4bsd does not have shared libraries. paul kranenburg wrote a shlib implimentation for netbsd (that the freebsd team are also using) very much based on sun's, but it was from scratch. .mrg.