1 pptp uses very few linux-specific features, and should be easily
2 portable to most Unix systems.
6 The code in pty.[ch] to find a free pty/tty pair. This was
7 conceptually borrowed from the xterm sources, which need to
8 do more or less the same thing. *But* the xterm sources had
9 a heck of a lot more system-specific #defines to cover all
10 the eccentric unix variants out there. If you are porting
11 this code to a non-unix system, I would recommend downloading
12 the xterm sources to find out how pty.[ch] should look for
13 your system. Xterm is in the standard X distribution, or
14 you can download SRRMs from ftp.redhat.com.
16 Configure the xterm sources for your machine, and then preprocess
17 main.c with these configuration options. E.g. I did:
19 [cananian@cananian xterm-sb_right-ansi-3d]# make main.o
21 gcc -c -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -I/usr/X11R6/include
22 -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE
23 -DX_LOCALE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -DUTMP -DUSE_TTY_GROUP
24 -DOSMAJORVERSION=2 -DOSMINORVERSION=0 main.c
26 So the appropriate preprocessing command would be:
28 [cananian@cananian xterm-sb_right-ansi-3d]# gcc -E -O2
29 -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -I/usr/X11R6/include -Dlinux -D__i386__
30 -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE
31 -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -DUTMP -DUSE_TTY_GROUP
32 -DOSMAJORVERSION=2 -DOSMINORVERSION=0 main.c > main.CPP
34 Grok through the sources to figure out how the ptys are allocated on
35 your machine. I suspect many people will want to look carefully at
36 the function pty_search(), but there are architectures that have
37 other, built-in, functions for doing the same thing.
39 Add the code to pty.[ch] with the proper #ifdefs, mail a patch back
40 to me at <cananian@alumni.princeton.edu> and you're good to go!
42 2) The pptp_gre_copy function opens an IP protocol socket with:
44 s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, PPTP_PROTO);
46 where PPTP_PROTO is #define'd in the code to be 47. I *think* that
47 this should work across Unix variants, but if your system has a
48 different method for opening a non-TCP, raw-IP-protocol-47 socket,
49 then you'll have to make some changes here, and perhaps in
50 decaps_gre and encaps_gre as well.
52 OK. Those are the only two potential non-portabilities I can think
53 of. I should really be using automake/autoconf, of course, as well.
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56 C. Scott Ananian <cananian@alumni.princeton.edu>