SUMMARY: libc: domestic or international?

From: Jeff Cobb (jeffc@ssl.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Thu Dec 02 1999 - 13:27:05 CST


Hi All,

My original post was:

>
> How does one tell if the libc on a particular SunOS 4.1.4 machine
> is the domestic or international version?
>

Very quickly, a great answer came from Charles Seeger <seeger@cise.ufl.edu> :

> Jeff, try looking for the _cbc_crypt function. AFAIR, there are
> about five extra functions in the domestic version, that being one
> of them.
>
> % nm /usr/lib/libc.so.1.9 | grep _cbc_crypt
>
> The existence of /usr/bin/des is another hint that the domestic libc
> has been installed, but a direct inspection of libc is better.

As it turns out, there is a mix of domestic and international at my shop
(different histories), even though they were all distributed in the US.

Thanks!
Jeff



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