Section 4.16. Some Solaris Nonportable Programming Practices

4.16. Some Solaris Nonportable Programming Practices

As the preceding comparison tables of system and library APIs show, a few Solaris calls are not portable to the Linux platform.Table 4-31 identifies some of the top incompatible APIs that may be encountered when porting Solaris applications to Linux.

Table 4-31. Porting Practices on Solaris That May Need Significant Porting Effort on Linux

Solaris	Linux
Use of nlist	Look at lsof source code for nlist_private example
Reading /dev/kmem directly	Port using /procfs and sysinfo API
Use of System V release 4 streams	Use open source; Linux Streams (LiS) (www.gcom.com/home/linux/lis/)
Use of Service Level Protocol	Use open source; OpenSLP (www.openslp.org)
Use of XTI/TLI	Use open source; OpenSS7 Project (www.openss7.org)

Caution is advised when using the equivalent Linux solutions presented. The list is presented only as a reference and not as officially recommended solutions. Investigate the viability of the solutions before planning to implement them in your applications.