[Firebird-devel] remote/ucx.cpp & remote/multivx.cpp

[Claudio V. C. <cv...@us...>]

Hello.

Can anybody explain in which platform is the file remote/ucx.cpp used?

It says
 *	PROGRAM:	JRD Remote Interface/Server
 *	MODULE:		ucx.c
 *	DESCRIPTION:	TCP/UCP/IP Communications module.

UCP? Will it be a typo from UDP or a specific variant like IPX?
Second, it contains only wrappers around functions with the vaxc$ prefix,
for example:

int ISC_tcp_accept( int s, struct sockaddr *addr, int *addrlen)
{
/**************************************
 *
 *	I S C _ t c p _ a c c e p t
 *
 **************************************
 *
 * Functional description
 *	Accept a connection on a socket.
 *
 **************************************/

	return vaxc$accept(s, addr, addrlen);
}


I have issues with remote/multivx.cpp... I was tempted to remote it in FB1,
but finally chickened out. It says:
 *	PROGRAM:	JRD Remote Interface/Server
 *	MODULE:		winvx.c
 *	DESCRIPTION:	Interface to Wollongong TCP

Probably it was offered in several platforms, but from my memory and if I'm
not wrong, I only remember Wollongong TCP as an add-on for Windows for
Workgroups.

TCP won the battle as the de-facto protocol for WAN's, do we need this
specific implementation? Is Wollonwong version used in any platform
currently? It seems mainly related to VMS and those sys$qio(...),
sys$hiber() and sys$wake() calls certainly are mystery for me. Latest
references I found in the net are from 1988, except for a person wanted to
try an old VAX in 1994.

C.
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Claudio Valderrama C.
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