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Re: gethostbyname
Andrew Lunn wrote:
>
> > Actually, it shouldn't use any private interfaces - only public ones, so it
> > should live in its own package. That way different network stacks (e.g. the
> > mini one RedBoot uses) can use it.
>
> Hummm. Does redboot provide BSD sockets?
Not with exactly the same API, but we can make it work. It's only UDP - you
can make a socket and use a recvfrom and sendto.
> A kernel so i can use mutex,
> per thread data? I think not.
You don't need per thread data for RedBoot - those would just be configured
out.
> Quite a few of the functions inside the lib directory do not use
> private interface. getserbyname, gethost, all the bootp stuff since it
> uses ioctl, the tftp server and client code, inet_addr etc. Why is
> this not in a generic package?
Inertia?
Jifl
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