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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!transfer.stratus.com!noc.near.net!Lotus.com!Temp.lotus.com!temp!jkh From: jkh@tsessebe.lotus.com (Jordan K Hubbard) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Is a YP/NIS client available? In-Reply-To: herring@iesd.auc.dk's message of 12 Oct 1993 16:35:59 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Oct13150547@tsessebe.lotus.com> Sender: news@lotus.com Nntp-Posting-Host: 130.103.186.127 Organization: Lotus Ireland References: <661@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> <29cbe8$pca@wzv.win.tue.nl> <29e12d$ege@mips.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> <29e9ii$5hf@homea.ensta.fr> <HERRING.93Oct12173600@xiv.iesd.auc.dk> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 14:05:47 GMT Lines: 15 >Bzzt! Thanks for playing anyway! :-) > >FreeBSD is also missing some system calls. It does not have >setdomainname or getdomainname (or uname, for that matter, but that >has no bearing on the problem at hand...). There is some debate right now whether or not the *domainname calls should be in libc or elsewhere - that's the only thing holding that up. As to uname(), I've added NetBSD's implementation to FreeBSD and it will be in the next release (or now, if you're a sup client of freefall). Jordan P.S. Erick - we'd be happy to have your stuff, give us a shout over at freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com!