Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

[Jordan Hubbard]

From: Joseph Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Query:  How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:50:00 -0400 (EDT)

> Well, looking through headers, a lot of stuff says "taken from the BSD
> file...", namely winsock.h and winsock2.h, at the very least it appears
> they have designed it with some goal of being backwards compatible with
> BSD sockets by using BSD structures, functions, whatever, but the actual
> winsock code may or may not be taken from BSD.
> 
> Is there anyone at Microsoft you could ask?

Not really, I don't have any contacts there.  Sigh.  I didn't think
proving this would be quite so hard. :(

- Jordan

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