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From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Roell's X11R4 server & TCP Problem Found/Solved?
Summary: No!
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.195818.23435@cti-software.nl>
Date: 6 Dec 90 19:58:18 GMT
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Organization: CTI Software BV, The Hague, The Netherlands
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paul@sdgsun.uucp (Paul Emerson) writes:



>  Pim Zandbergen says:

>  When I start the server, "Getting interface configuration: invalid argument"
>  is displayed, just before it goes to graphics mode.
>  This message turns out to come from mit/server/os/4.2bsd/access.c,
>  which does an ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF) that fails.

>Well I got the same problem.  I am running 386/ix 2.0.2 with TCP 1.2.
>I started to look for information on SIOCGIFCONF ioctl in the TCP manual,
>but no such luck.  Ok, so I wrote a little quick and dirty program that

Thanks to Jan Herder from Sweden, who suggested to use gcc -traditional,
this problem has been solved. But TCP/IP connections still don't
work for me. I even recompiled everything (except the server,
which is written in ANSI C) using this flag, without succes.
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