Re: PostgreSQL on Novell Netware 6.5. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: PostgreSQL on Novell Netware 6.5.
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In response to PostgreSQL on Novell Netware 6.5.  (Terry Yapt <pgsql@technovell.com>)
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"Eduardo D Piovesam" <eduardo@autofax.com.br> wrote in message news:bmp9p9$2fjc$1@news.hub.org...
> Hi,
>
> > It's been quite a while ago that I did NetWare programming (3.11 NLM,
> > communication protocol for a dbms), and that I had some contact with
> > Netware (4.1), but if Novell didn't change the architecture completely
> > (I doubt that) the native win32 port won't be of any help for
>
> They've done the job. Forget all about 3.x / 4.x and even 5.x. No more CLib,
> you have now LibC which is a POSIX like API.
>
> AFAIK, they're finishing some usefull APIs, which'll make the port much more
> "easy". The "only difference" will be the "threaded model" instead of
> process based...
>
> NW6.x already have Apache, bash, gcc, mysql, openssh, vnc, etc... thanks to
> this "new architecture".
>
> You can get the 7.2.4 on http://forge.novell.com
>
Why 7.2.4 I wonder? And I don't see anything there in the CVS repository. I know they are not obliged to show us the source code, but doing so would be nice (especially to see the threading part).
 
cheers
 
andrew

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