The general rule of thumb when porting an open-source package is to keep track of the changes you make to get it to build and execute on your system, and if you think the changes would be useful to the community at large, to submit them to the maintainers of the package.
Ever wonder how STCP knows what its name is? In the >system>stcp directory is a file called host.
Don’t you just hate it when something breaks the build of your software? Build problems create extra, unplanned work.
I have recently ported several new or updated open-source packages to OpenVOS Release 17.0.
In this blog I will address how to determine if enough osl_server_processes are started; in a future blog discuss how to determine if the max_open_servers value is correct for your environment.
The ARP cache exists in one form or another on every host that communicates via IP over Ethernet. The cache holds the mapping between IP address and Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) address.
This is an updated version of an article that was first posted on November 16, 2010. This version adds several diagrams and covers some additional subtopics.
I started thinking about the qualities that separate great programmers from merely good programmers. Read on to learn my views.
I’ve just uploaded ports of cflow and cscope to the VOS anonymous FTP site. Read on for details.
So, you are thinking of upgrading to a new release of OpenVOS, or to a newer hardware platform, and you want to know the effect on the response time or the throughput of your application? What do you do to answer this question? Read on to hear some suggestions.
