On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, teunis wrote:
> If you were to talk about
> networking, BSD is the standard that Linux follows.
And follows badly, last I heard...Linux's networking support
doesn't perform as well as *BSDs, and, last I heard, has been rewritten
from scratch 3 times in the past 6 years or so...
Who wants STREAMS
> anyways? If you're talking API interface (and here's where I bate
> non-glibc users), GLIBC-2 is the standard for Unix98+. (I still don't see
> why postgres doesn't support it... though I haven't gotten around to
> writing a patch (or looking recently)...).
Key reason why we don't support it...nobody except for Linux
currently is using it...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org