gettimeofday() in hping

[Stefan Lambrev]

Greetings,

Ivan Voras wrote:
> On 04/02/2008, Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev at moneybookers.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Kris if you do not mind I'll write to hping developers to adopt this
>> patch, and if no response from them I can try to reach the port
>> maintainer, so we have this patched in ports?
>>     
>
> As we're in a "the whole world is a Linux"  situation, would it be
> helpful to open a page on our wiki to enumerate differences like this,
> that would help people write and port applications to FreeBSD? I know
> the sort of advice given by Kris should be obvious to professional
> developers, but history shows that it is not and that people rather
> read blogs than manuals.
>   
That's the reason I started to dislike Linux last few years - because 
it's "defacto" standart in open source/unix like OS world,
and their dev team act very much like MS dev team :(

In the wiki there is a page about how to avoid "linuxism". I think we 
have to mention this there.
It was the first place where I looked how to speed up hping. I think the 
info about gettimeofday (and replacements)
and the ENOBUFS situation have to be explained little more there.
I do not expect developers, that write programs for linux to read the 
FreeBSD wiki, but it will help people like me -
not very experienced in coding, to produce patches/ports without 
bothering too much advanced developers :)

It will be good if there are some examples too.

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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
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