sockets related functionalities on Fedora Linux
Markku Kolkka
markkuk at tuubi.net
Fri Oct 6 11:36:41 UTC 2006
Abid Ghufran kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 6.
lokakuuta 2006 10:55):
> I am working on a networking application using socket and C
> programming. I need a functionality to manipulate routing
> table and for that I need SYSCTL API (it is part of socket
> interface). Now, the problem is that I cannot find the
> relevant library.
sysctl() is specific to the *BSD family of Unixes (AFAIK). It's
not part of the Single Unix Specification/POSIX or Linux. Linux
has _sysctl() and the command line sysctl program, but their
usage is different.
> Is there any way I could add these libraries? For this do I
> have to recompile the kernel?
You have to switch from Linux to *BSD.
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Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka at iki.fi
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