Subject: Re: SUP for Linux
To: Kevin Sullivan <ksulliva@kludge.psc.edu>
From: Rob Healey <rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org>
List: current-users
Date: 05/08/1995 16:43:34
> Rob Windsor (windsor@punk.weru.ksu.edu) wrote:
> I use sup on Ultrix, Solaris (ugh), and OSF/1, and compiled it myself
> (from the NetBSD sources; they were all I could find). It was easy on
> all of the platforms except Solaris. I've never compiled anything for
> Linux, but assuming it is really as standard as people claim it is
> there shouldn't be much problem compiling sup there.
>
When I last looked at sup it's code was horribly un-ANSI C and
used ALOT of BSD only assumptions. This is why SVRx systems like
Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and probably Linux might be a pain in the butt
to port it to.
Has anybody ANSI/POSIXified the sup source? Maybe we could get it
in to the othersrc tree to replace the older code?
-Rob