Re: Informix running on Linux

}From: Mike Jagdis <mike@roan.co.uk> }Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 12:12:56 GMT }X-Informix-List-Id: <news.38442> } }Doug McAllister said } }>The overhead for Informix to do a port to any platform and then to }>maintain it is about the same regardless of whether it is for Linux, }>Solaris, or what-have-you. } }If there is significant overhead in porting standard C using }POSIX/Single UNIX Spec interfaces then they need to attend to }their code base anyway... Well, there are pieces of code that would benefit from being cleaned up, but in case you've not looked at the POSIX.1:1996 standard, it does not mention shared memory or semaphores, nor any of the networking system calls, nor ... In other words, although POSIX is a fine standard, it is not sufficient for handling OnLine. }If they feel there is functionality missing from Linux that they *need* }then they could start by actually telling someone what it is *specifically*. I agree. }[...] Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>