Hey guys,
I really hate to be a bother, because I know how
difficult maintaining program software (and yet you
guys are responsible for an entire OS!) can be.
So I'll try and get to the point. Some of the
programs I help to maintain (and several others I only
use) take advantage of several system calls that don't
appear to be present in FreeBSD, and hence the
software programs (much to my dismay) have to be
deployed under Linux and some users are apparently
successfully using the software under Windows.
There are two sets of function calls to which I
refer. The first is mremap(). The second is a set of
DNS calls, for example, gethostbyname_r.
gethostbyname_r differs from gethostbyname in its
syntax, and most importantly, gethostbyname_r is
thread-safe. (There are a few more _r calls relating
to thread-safe DNS which I cannot recall offhand.)
If its possible that something could be done to
address this, I would really appreciate. I would love
to upgrade a number of servers to FreeBSD.
Anyway, thank you for your time. Sincerely
yours,
M. P. Halpin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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