Dave,

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Dave Grothe wrote:

> Brian:
> 
> Would you have any problems with my working "your" tcp-0.5 into the LiS 
> distribution?  I think that I could just untar it under the main LiS 
> directory and visit it in the master Makefile.  You can always send me a 
> link to the tgz for an update and I can untar it into this directory.  I'll 
> coordinate with you if I want to change anything.
> 
> Do any of the other authors like or dislike this idea as well?  The only 
> down side that I can see is that it will consume two major device 
> numbers.  I could make it allocate its own nodes when activated so that the 
> majors got allocated dynamically.  But then you couldn't cause the driver 
> to load just by opening /dev/tcp.  You would have to modprobe 
> streams-sock-inet in order for it to perform the mknods internally.
> 
> Also, in eyeballing inet.c I found the following at line 1677.  Should that 
> first line be deleted as redundant?
> 
>          if (endp->sock->type == SOCK_STREAM)
> 
>          if (req->CONIND_number != 0 && endp->sock->type == SOCK_STREAM) {
>                  err = endp->sock->ops->listen(endp->sock, req->CONIND_number);
> 
>                  ERRA("listen issued : res %d", err);
>                  ASSERT(err == 0);
>                  /*endp->sock->flags |= SO_ACCEPTCON;*/
>          }

I don't have any problem with your including "my" inet.c.  I has a GPL
license, however, not an LGPL.

The above, however, is not fom "my" inet.c. (Nor is tcp-0.5.)  tcp-0.5
is Ole's with changes by Martin Boll and is broken in a number of ways.

You will find "my" inet.c in strinet-0.8.2.tgz.

--brian

> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
> 
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