Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Networking/MFC

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Chris Lawrence wrote:

> On Jun 20, Andy Black wrote:
> > This is probably a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyways.  Does anyone
> > know if the networking comands used in freeciv use the XTI interface (from
> > X/Open)?  I am wondering because it effects what I do with the server code
> > at this point.  If freeciv uses the XTI interface (or TLI interface), it
> > should be relativly easy to get networking working on the Mac port. If
> > freeciv does not use one of those interfaces, I'll need to rewite the
> > network code.
> 
> No, Freeciv uses Berkeley sockets.  Any self-respecting networking
> implementation should emulate Berkeley sockets... even SysV (which is
> where the [imho misguided] TLI originated) includes sockets support.

And don't forget M$ Windows also uses a BSDish socket API.  Anyway the
only places were i've seen anything using TLI sockets is in code which
uses Sun RPC or something like that.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa, student @ Instituto Superior Tecnico,
Technical University of Lisbon - Software & Computer Engineering