Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Networking/MFC

[Andy Black <ablack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>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.

Well, Open Transport (the current Mac network drivers) includes suport for
XTI interface/socket suport to help with compatibility.

Andy Black

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