Re: running DEC binaries

["Wes Bauske" <wsb paralleldata com>]

James Peret wrote:
> 
> I am trying to run a Dec native binary on alphalinux.  i get the error
> message
> 
> getadr:  ioctl SIOCGIFCONF: Invalid argument
> Couldn't locate your Ethernet device
> ERROR: could not connect to NameServer.
> 

That's an ioctl() on a socket. I use it under Linux so it
does work in native code. No idea how to get DEC binaries
to call it correctly. It retrieves the list of network interfaces
on a machine, usually to decide which ones to use.


Wes