Hi Patrick,
On 19-Sep-00, Patrick Ford spoke thus:
> Gidday John
> On 19-Sep-00, you wrote:
>> Hi
>> Quite a long time ago I sent an email here regarding a problem I had,
>> where ramlib would fail (Ramlib program failed: 8000 0004 IIRC) if I
>> ran any internet program without a tcp/ip stack going. Actually it
>> was any internet program and also PGP 5 and ispell from golded, so I
>> suspected that ixemul had something to do with it. Some of you
>> suggested various stack patches but none of these worked. Eventually
>> I tracked it down to being something about bsdsocket.library. I have
>> renamed this to bsdsocket.library.old and this has fixed the problem
> That was the right thing to do. Loading it from file must be a
> hangover from the old days. Miami and Genesis/AmiTCP create it in
> memory.
Oh I see. That makes more sense then.
>> of ramlib failing, and all my internet apps seem to work fine. Only
>> thing
>> is, now any program that uses ixemul takes a long time to work
>> because it is looking for bsdsocket.library, but after it can't find
>> it, it goes anyway.
> The library should only be looked for if a program has to check if a
> TCP/IP stack is running.
Here's a small part of the snoopdos output. Notice that it goes from
line 203 to 629 repeatedly searching for bsdsocket.library in the Libs:
path! This took about 9 seconds while snoopdos was running, I think it
takes about half that without snoopdos running. Any idea why it would
do this? Like I said this also happens for other programs that use
ixemul, or maybe it's actually ones that use ixnet... hmm.
Count Process Na Action Target Name
Res.
----- ---------- ------ -----------
----
*snip*
196 [10] PGPK OpenLib ixemul.library
OK
197 ramlib Load LIBS:ixemul.library
OK
198 ramlib GetVar IXGMTOFFSET
Fail
199 ramlib GetVar ixemul.prefs
Fail
200 ramlib GetVar HOSTNAME
Fail
201 [10] PGPK OpenLib ixnet.library
Fail
202 ramlib Load LIBS:ixnet.library
OK
203 [10] PGPK OpenLib bsdsocket.library
Fail
*snipped*
620 [10] PGPK OpenLib bsdsocket.library
Fail
621 ramlib Load LIBS:bsdsocket.library
Fail
622 ramlib Load bsdsocket.library
Fail
623 ramlib Load LIBS:LIBS/bsdsocket.library
Fail
624 ramlib Load LIBS/bsdsocket.library
Fail
625 ramlib Load LIBS:CLASSES/bsdsocket.library
Fail
626 ramlib Load CLASSES/bsdsocket.library
Fail
627 ramlib Load PROGDIR:bsdsocket.library
Fail
628 ramlib Load PROGDIR:LIBS/bsdsocket.library
Fail
629 ramlib Load PROGDIR:CLASSES/bsdsocket.library
Fail
>> E.g. if I use 'ls' from the gcc package from aminet it
>> takes a couple of seconds then lists the files in a directory. Anyone
>> got any ideas what's going on here? I thought at first that
>> bsdsocket.library was an essential part of Genesis but actually it
>> doesn't seem to be a part of it at all!
> Yes it is. With Genesis running and on-line, type in a shell,
> version bsdsocket.library.
Yep that works, thanks.
> Regards
Regards,
--
John Gillanders
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