Porting with a Purpose

Abstract

In my presentation of 1996, I discussed the practical issues of porting applications from UNIX to VM/ESA. In this follow up I examine the porting of and use of applications that are assisting NSW TAB in turning its VM/ESA systems into more complete Enterprise Servers.

Specifically, I will be looking at:

• Internet Relay Chat (IRC);
• Internet News (INN);
• SNMP/DPI agents to allow VM to participate in system management complexes;
• SYSLOG daemon to centralise console management;
• Utilities/Tools:
  • gnumake;
  • gzip;
  • awf;
  • xlisp;
  • gcc.

I will also be expanding on my thoughts on what else I need under Open Edition to add value to my VM/ESA systems, such as:

• An implementation of fork();
• The Ability to add device drivers;
• The need for C++;
• Additional API's.

Keywords: Open Edition, XPG4, porting, SYSLOG, IRC, SNMP, INN, RFC867, RFC868, RFC1592.

Table of Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Applications with Attitude

Further Requirements

Conclusion

Appendix A. innd Code Extracts

Appendix B. hostname Utility

Appendix C. xlisp Example

Appendix D. References