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Re: Removing untested libpcap support for older platforms
From: Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:43:35 +0000
On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 20:27:41 -0700 Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net> wrote: [...]
Should we also consider removing support for some older UN*X platforms, such as: SunOS prior to SunOS 4 - pcap-nit.c; the last such version, SunOS 3.5, was released in January 1988 SunOS 4.x - pcap-snit.c; the last such version, SunOS 4.1.5, was released in November 1994 HP-UX 9 - some code in pcap-dlpi.c; the last such version, 9.10, was released in early-to-mid 1995 HP-UX 10 prior to 10.20 - some code in pcap-dlpi.c; - the only such version, 10.0, was released in 1995 SINIX - some code in pcap-dlpi.c; - the last release, Reliant UNIX 5.45, was released some time in the early 2000s (?) IRIX - pcap-snoop.c; - the last update was released some time in the mid-to-late 2000s (?) DEC OSF/1^W^WDigital UNIX^WTru64 UNIX - pcap-pf.c; the last release, Tru64 UNIX 5.1B-6, was released in October 2010
[...] For posterity, the master branches no longer support the above OSes even nominally. Occasional dead-like code still surfaces, for example, libpcap still uses a small buffer size on AIX to work around a problem in AIX 3.5 (not in Wikipedia, supposedly dates to 1993-1994) and uses conditionals for LynxOS, with which it has had no contact for good 10 years (if anyone knows that's not the case, please provide particulars). I guess most of such artefacts eventually will be gone too. In tcpdump README.md now includes a more or less complete list of retired OSes, please improve what you find in need of improvement. -- Denis Ovsienko _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list -- tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org To unsubscribe send an email to tcpdump-workers-leave () lists tcpdump org %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s
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