On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > > > - libdps needs IPv6 work. Perhaps other things (not included in X.Org's > > > tree) do also.
> > True. I did not touch DPS at all - I didn't think anyone made a DPS/NX > > standalone agent that was IPv6 capable, nor that anyone was working on it. > > I believe as long as you only use DPS as an extension built into the X server > > it will work fine (at least we haven't seen problems with that on Solaris > > since we shipped like this in Solaris 9). > I think the best thing to do here is to recode DPS to rely on xtrans. But > that's out of my league at the moment... > > As for other things in XFree86 outside the X.org tree, you may want to try > > running the Sun "IPv6 socket scrubber" (it greps for code that is likely to > > need changing). It's what I used when I started working on IPv6 for Xsun and > > then the X.org/XFree86 ports to determine what areas to look at. Unfortunately, > > since I left all the old IPv4 code in and made the IPv6 an alternative instead > > of a replacement (since otherwise we'd break all the old platforms), it will > > return "false positives" on all the old code. You can download the scrubber > > for free from http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/ipv6/ > Super. Thanks for the pointer. I'll check this out. In addition to dps, the socket scrubber is also fingering rstart and xfwp, both of which are also in X.Org's tree. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
