Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:17:00 +0100 (GMT/BST) | From | Mike Jagdis <> | Subject | Re: Sys V TLI for Linux? |
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On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, W. Reilly Cooley wrote:
> Does anyone know of an implementation of Sys V TLI for Linux? If not, anyone > want to get crackin'? Informix is considering porting some of their DBMS > software to Linux, and requires this for an easy port. It would move Linux > in closer competetion with commercial Unices to have such significant > software as a database from one of the top three DB companies.
You could just pull the TLI/XTI over sockets emulation from iBCS and make it a separate module. It's not a real STREAMS based TLI but does most of what is needed - although anything that expects to be able to push arbitrary STREAMS modules on to a transport end point is in trouble. It would make more sense for Informix to use a user space TLI over sockets library or to write a sockets version of their net code. Although I seem to remember that they have their own STREAMS module to link in to the host kernel (which is a bugger for portability). If they _really_ need a full STREAMS stack they had better join the LiS project sharpish because their no-STREAMS competitors will have a good head start :-).
Mike
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