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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.147.65.67!news.lehman.com!lonweb.lehman.com!news From: Paul David Fox <pfox@lehman.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 08:26:11 +0000 Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc. Lines: 39 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <32A535A3.167EB0E7@lehman.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <57djlg$bks@agate.berkeley.edu> <57dkbq$bsr@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329abb76@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57ej3a$7ij@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329ae8f2@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57hhcp$kp9@innocence.interface-business.de> <mkl.849534999@rob.cs.tu-bs.de> <casper.32a2f5ee@mail.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: london6app1.lehman.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91220 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1660 > >library routine or vice versa. Socket once was a syscall (in SunOS4), > >but is a library routine today (in Solaris 2.5). Perhaps this will be > >changed in the future, but the interface to the binaries is not > >affected by this change. > > It's a syscall again in 2.6, but that's transparent to binaries. > > Casper Hooray! At last truss will be useful again when trying to figure out what an application is doing over a socket (instead of that horrendous thing they call STREAMS). I can't wait. Casper, you mentioned some changes to truss for 2.6 regarding more informative tracing. Can you possible elaborate a little further. I personally think Solaris 2.5 is one of the best Unixes out there from a feature (s/w debugging) standpoint. Performance sucks _real_ bad, but I can live with that. I just want to know what to look forward to in terms of new tracing tools. Also any approx idea of the 2.6 release schedule? Oh and one other thing, can anyone at Sun explain why 2.5 and 2.5.1 exist at all for the x86 platform? Why isnt 2.5 just dropped and provide a patch upgrade from 2.5 to 2.5.1. Sun's patch release mechanism for people _not_ on support is a major _major_ pain in the butt. Keep up the good work. -- Paul David Fox Lehman Brothers. Everything I say E-mail: pfox@lehman.com is at the mercy Home: fox@crisp.demon.co.uk of my fingers. Tel: +44 171 601 0011 x6397