Package strnsl-0.9.2.3 was released under GPLv2 2007-06-24.
UNIX has traditionally provided three components of the Network
Services Library, libnsl, two of which are associated with the X/Open
Transport Interface/Transport Layer Interface (XTI/TLI), libxnet, the
Transport Provider Interface (TPI), and STREAMS network pseudo-device
drivers. Two components provide the TI (Transport Independent)
interface, whereas the other provides the TS (Transport Sockets)
interface. The TI components provide the Transport Independent RPC
services (TI-RPC) pioneered by Sun Microsystems and subsequently
standardized by the IETF.
GNU/Linux glibc provides (among other things) the RPC interface
library and the TS-RPC and BSD 4.3 sockets address translation
facilities in libc, and provides NIS capabilities in libnsl. STREAMS
related components that are not currently part of the Linux Network
Services Library (libnsl) are:
1. Network Selection, consisting of:
- Network Configuration database access, netconfig(3), and,
- Network Path access, netpath(3).
2. Name-to-Address Translation, netdir(3).
These are often referred to as the Network Selection facility of the
Network Services Library. The OpenSS7 STREAMS Network Services Library
package provides a library, renamed libxnsl, that provides the missing
Network Selection and Name-to-Address mapping facilities designed to
work with xti(3).
The OpenSS7 STREAMS Network Services Library package contains header
files and the associated documentation that were originally contained
in the strxnet package. This library was quickly removed from the
strxnet distribution and placed in its own add-on package.
This is the third separate release from The OpenSS7 Project of the
OpenSS7 STREAMS Network Services Library package. This package
provides the libxnsl library providing the Network Selection Facility
for the Network Services Library. The package contains all the
necessary manual pages and other documentation. The package is
packaged as an OpenSS7 style autoconf tarball.
This is the third alpha release for Linux Fast-STREAMS and is part of
the OpenSS7 Master Package (openss7-0.9.2.F). The release provides
support for recent distributions and tool chains.
Major features since the last public release are as follows:
- Support build on openSUSE 10.2.
- Fixed problems with conflicting /etc/netconfig file definitions
between libtirpc and this implementation of the network
configuration utilities.
- Support build on Fedora 7 with 2.6.21 kernel.
- Support build on CentOS 5.0 (RHEL5).
- Support build on Ubuntu 7.04.
- Updated to gettext 0.16.1.
- Supports build on Fedora Core 6.
- Support for recent distributions and tool chains.
This is a public alpha release of the package. This package is
currently incomplete. It is being released as a reference point for
the community. If you are interested in completion of this package,
contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles,
installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and
2.6 RPM- and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production
kernels without patching or recompiling the kernel.
This package is publicly released under the `GNU General Public
License Version 2'. The release is available as an autoconf tarball,
SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads page
<http://www.openss7.org/download.html> for the autoconf tarballs,
SRPMs and DSCs. For tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs and binary RPMs and DEBs,
see the strnsl package page <http://www.openss7.org/strnsl_pkg.html>.
See <http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strnsl-0.9.2.3/ChangeLog> and
<http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/strnsl-0.9.2.3/NEWS> in the release
for more information. Also, see the `strnsl.pdf' manual in the
release, also in html <http://www.openss7.org/strnsl_manual.html>.
For the news release, see <http://www.openss7.org/rel20070624_D.html>.
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Brian F. G. Bidulock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.openss7.org/
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