Re: More recent CVS woes...

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 09:54 AM, Pete French wrote:

> > Did you say you were running bsd rather than linux?
>
> Yes, FreeBSD 4.8. What were the chnages you made ? Were they in 
> networking
> code ? I think this is one of the areas where UNIX and Linux have some
> differences. One of the first changes I ever submitted to GNUstep was
> a fix for one of the gdnc/gdomap type programs to make it find 
> interfaces
> properly under FreeBSd as I recall...

It was an attempt to make gdnc (unless -NSHost is used) private to the 
machine
(as per the apple documentation) by using the loopback interface.
I haven't had chance to check in detail, but I think I got it wrong ... 
and it just worked
on linux because of some oddity of the linux tcp/ip handling.
As we now have Alexanders unix domain socket code in place, it might 
make more
sense just to use that rather then try to figure out the differences 
between bsd and linux.