[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: [ast-users] /dev/tcp+/dev/udp notcompiled-in for Solaris ksh93r...

[Roland Mainz]

"I. Szczesniak" wrote:
> On 9/7/06, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> > Glenn Fowler wrote:
> > > socket() not in libc
> > > solaris is still in the 70's on this one
> > > is it in -lsocket?
> > [snip]
> >
> > Minor update (I just hit that problem again): It still doesn't work in
> > ksh93r+_20060724... ;-(
> 
> Does ksh93 provide a property which can be used to check within a
> script whether the shell has been built with networking capabilities?

I would simply assume that ksh93 which is going to be shipped with
Solaris Nevada always has networking capabilities. At least I am
checking that on a regular basis...

... on the other side some kind of "capabilities" flags (for
networking-, multibyte-, largefile- etc. support) in the output of the
"getconf" builtin may be a nice idea...

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Bye,
Roland

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