[Linux-ha-dev] Re: Heartbeat on Solaris?

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Alan Robertson writes:
...
 > > I see. A major difference between UNIX and *BSD is memcpy, strrchr and
 > > bcopy, rindex. I don't know how or if these functions are ever used, but
 > > you would have to write a replacement for the other target when you do
 > 
 > I understand.  I've been porting things between UNIXes for over 20 years,
 > without using any tools.  I tend to stay to pretty common things on the
 > basis of long experience.  And, I think that nowadays that BSD has things
 > like memcpy and strrchr, even though they didn't used to.  I haven't looked
 > at the Solaris patches (oops!), but the FreeBSD/OpenBSD patches have been
 > simple.  They're all in the source under CVS now, except for a couple of
 > flags that have to be different when you invoke the top level makefile.
 > 
 > There is one candidate for something I did in an linux-dependent way - and
 > that's in findif.c.  But, I don't use any linux-dependent functions - I read
 > /proc/somethingorother ;-)
 > 
 > 	-- Alan Robertson
 > 	   alanr at suse.com
 > 

Hey Alan,

the change I made a while back to finding the broadcast address with
an ioctl() call had a portability problem to Digital Unix, but that
was all.  Before it did a system "ifconfig | grep ..."

-Eric.