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"J. Lewis Muir via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Tue, 28 Nov 2023 10:37:15 -0600

On 11/24, Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk wrote:
> Both PVA and CA protocols depend on less common features of TCP/IP
> stacks which behave slightly differently on Linux vs. Windows vs. BSD.
> Over the years, we have identified a set of workarounds for these
> "quirks".  Of course this depend on being able to identify which TCP/IP
> stack implementation is actually *running*.  A build time check is
> not sufficient.
> 
> With WSL 1, I was not able to find a reliable way to identify that
> this "Linux" host actually has Windows IP stack quirks.
> 
> The opposite situation exists with WINE where a "Windows" host
> actually has Linux IP stack quirks.  Unlike WSL 1, this situation
> can be detected at runtime.

If a certain property can't be detected at run time but needs to be, how
about providing a way to set the property at run time since the user
will know what it should be set to?

Lewis

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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