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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Fax compiled but?
Date: 17 Dec 93 04:13:45
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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Message-ID: <BRIAN.93Dec17041345@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
References: <Zy80Dc1w165w@oasys.pc.my>
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In-reply-to: othman@oasys.pc.my's message of Thu, 09 Dec 93 08:26:34 +800

In article <Zy80Dc1w165w@oasys.pc.my> othman@oasys.pc.my (Othman Ahmad) writes:

   [stuff deleted]

	   I'm not worried about that because I'll try to fix the send.c code
   which does not seem to use POSIX but SysVish termios.

   [stuff deleted]

Watch it - When I ported innd, there was a rather nasty function called send !
It took a while to notice that gethostbyname() was calling send(), but
picking up the application send(), not the library version.

Is this the same on FreeBSD ?

Brian.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>