[Info-vax] OT: Apple sits on critical Mac bug for 7 months (and counting)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 31-01-2010 11:28, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article<4b6598ae$0$272$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=<arne at vajhoej.dk>  writes:
>> On 31-01-2010 08:22, JF Mezei wrote:
>>> Neil Rieck wrote:
>>>> compare with with HP, HP uses open source Apache to produce SWS.
>>>
>>> This is quite different. the proprietary version of Apache for VMS is
>>> not Apache, it is based on Apache and modified to run on VMS. (aka: the
>>> VMS code is not part of the official Apache distribution).
>>
>> SWS is most certainly Apache.
>>
>> Mine identifies itself as:
>>
>> Server: Apache/2.0.52 (OpenVMS) PHP/5.2.6
>>
>> The Apache license permits those modifying the code
>> to keep the modifications closed source.
>>
>> (I doubt that it is the case for VMS, but ...)
>>
>> IBM HTTP Server and Oracle HTTP Server are both Apache
>> as well.
>
> You mean, LIB$FIND_IMAGE_SYMBOL doesn't exist on EVERY OS platform?
>
I don't understand how the context leads to this question.

Obviously LIB$FIND_IMAGE_SYMBOL is VMS only. Windows uses
LoadLibrary + GetProcAddress, Unix/Linux uses dlopen+dlsym
etc..

Apache need those to load modules.

Arne