Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!AI.AI.MIT.EDU!PAP4
From: PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Berzerkeley sockets
Message-ID: <283561.871111.PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 00:37:50 EST
Article-I.D.: AI.283561.871111.PAP4
Posted: Wed Nov 11 00:37:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 01:52:38 EST
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 17

Funding?  Did I hear funding?  Well, I'm looking for a
new paycheck, so why not...

You're right about binary compatibility.  Being source
compatible with the Berkeley man pages isn't enough.
When I wrote the FTP S/W sockets library, half (or there
abouts) of the calls from our beta sites where problems
having to do with VAX ints not being the size of PC ints.

If you look at the gethostid(2) call, you will see that
it returns an int, which really should be a long, even if
they are the same thing on a VAX...  This is duplicated
many places in the socket interface.

So when do we draft this new spec?  I'm game...

-Philip