Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

[Sergey Babkin]

Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> 
> I've had several marketing types approach me recently for details as
> to whether or not Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack and/or user
> utilities, and though it's always been "common knowledge" in the
> community that they were, when I set about to "prove" it I found it to
> be less easy than I'd thought.  I've strings'd various binaries and
> DLLs in my copy of Windows 98 but have yet to find anything resembling
> proof.  Does anyone out there have any details or discovery techniques
> for confirming or disproving this assertion either way?  It would be
> very useful (for us) from a PR standpoint to know.

I know one way but it's a hard one: disassemble and manually decomiple
the code and compare it with the BSD code. I've once done such
a research on the HP-UX pty code (for other reasons) and it matched
the BSD code practically exactly except for the added spin locks.

-SB

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