[En-Nut-Discussion] NutOS Unix emulation status?

[Nathan Moore]

> > Not really. As far as I remember, the interface for sending raw Ethernet
> > packets is WinPCap specific. As you already mentioned, receiving them
> > should be no problem.
>
> will we realy need a packet based interface or could'nt we just write
> some wrapper functions to map the NutOS socket controle, TCP, UDP (and
> others) functions to standard linux functions as well?
>
> This would not be an exact NutOS emulation but would allow to develop
> NutOS applications on a pc.


NutOS tcp sockets don't work the same as BSD sockets, particularly when
binding to a port.
I don't think that there's a really elegant solution to that.