>> solaris is still in the 70's on this one 70s? Sockets? It's an AT&T thing.
>Well, maybe one argument could be that most small applications do not >need networking... but I do not know the exact argumentation. >Maybe Casper Dik can explain why libsocket/libnsl were not integrated >into libc yet (other stuff such as threading support was integrated for >Solaris 10 - why didn't that happen with networking, too ?) ... Perhaps this explains it: (size) /lib/libc.so.1: 874985 + 28302 + 5750 = 909037 /lib/libsocket.so.1: 43370 + 4269 + 843 = 48482 /lib/libnsl.so.1: 577086 + 33945 + 22291 = 633322 Libnsl is a *pig*. Especially the 60K of *data* it apparently needs per process. Casper
