Vivek S wrote: > AFAIK solaris is used in high performance systems (data centres). This > means that a lot of (probably high performance) applications have been > or are being written.
True. > If there is no public interface available then it > means that all these apps use the system utilities? :-O (thats not high > performance, it includes a lot of overhead). At what point would a high-performance application involve lots of plumbing and (presumably) unplumbing of interfaces? > I thought an OS at the very minimum will expose API's for its > configuration. Correct me if i am wrong. There are exposed APIs for some sorts of configuration, but not others. Plumbing networking interfaces is one of the areas where there is no such simple interface. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
