> 3. What are the reasons for such a "fold" ?

Because there's no inherent benefit to keeping them split up and being
gratuitously different from every other UNIX variant on the planet, and
because sockets are not a bolt-on part of Solaris.

 > 4. What about (as alternative propsal OR executed as part of the
 > "folding") to compile the libnsl/libsocket code with "-xstrconst" +
 > some further linker magic to reduce size of the data which need to be
 > duplicated for each process ?

Sounds fine.

To be clear, there is no project here yet.  We're just thinking about it.

--
meem
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