[openbeosnetteam] R5 compatibility and libnetapi.so

Hi there,

I'm currently investigating our previous R5 compatibility layer, and 
wanted to ask what kind of solution you would prefer for us. The 
options are:

a) Keep a libnet.so around that exports all the needed symbols and just 
always converts all calls.
b) Link libnet.so to libnetwork.so (as done with libbind.so and 
libsocket.so), and determine at runtime if the compatibility layer 
should be used or not.

a) would have the benefit that a BONE application that loads a 
net_server add-on would still work; but since this is a very 
constructed example, I don't know if that should really matter.
b) would be much easier to do and reduce the network related libraries 
a bit more.
I'm also thinking about moving libnetapi.so (and libbnetapi.so) into 
libnetwork.so as well.

About b): am I right that only calls to socket(), setsockopt(), ... 
including sockaddr_ins need to be converted? Do you have any indication 
that checking against being linked against "libnet.so" is not an 
unambiguous sign of activating the compatibility layer?

Bye,
   Axel.

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