RE: [MiNT] Incorporating other calls into the

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: Michael Schwingen [mailto:rincewind@discworld.dascon.de]
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 12:21 AM
> To: Julian Reschke
> Cc: MiNT List
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] Incorporating other calls into the
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:32:47PM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > It seems that you want the code of the MiNT net libraries moved into the
> > kernel. I understand that you don't feel like porting this code
> to another
> > language, but of course then the proper solution would be to generate a
> > library in DR format. That would make much more sense than
> moving code that
> > many people don't need into the static kernel.
>
> Sure? I would think that at least the basic networking
> functionality should
> be placed in the kernel, so that all networking related calls are just
> gemdos functions (after all, they do deal with filehandles).
>
> We do not need the functions themself in the kernel itself, the functions
> may be implemented in an extension (xdd or similar), but having this
> functionality in the library is not a clean approach IMHO. All the kernel
> had to do is know the calls and forward them if the XDD is present.

I have to admit that I currently don't know how much of the functionality is
in the XDD and how much is in the library. My understanding was that all of
this is modeled after the BSD socket library?