Re: pcap-bpf and AIX odm related code

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:11 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:

> I do not know if there are any AIX users left.
> For me, it's been at least 15 years since I had one with a compiler.
> (Not counting the VIO LPAR server on IBM pSeries...)
>
> I wonder if we can even maintain this branch of pcap at this point?

We can maintain pcap on AIX to the extent that

        1) I can use The Written Word's machines to test that it builds

and

	2) people who have access to AIX systems on which they can *run*  
tcpdump (meaning "root privileges", I think, which I *don't* have on  
TWW's systems) contribute patches if stuff doesn't work.

That also applies to any other OSes to which we might not have access,  
such as HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX.  (I have access to OS X on my machines,  
as well as access to a variety of Linuxes, *BSDs, Solaris, and Windows  
under VMware Fusion.  If an OS requires a non-x86/non-x86-64  
processor, I can't run it on my machine.)
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