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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:49:02 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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Means several things.
-!! 1.
+!! 1. Adjustment of software for different environments
''Porting'' is making software that runs on one type of computer or OperatingSystem run on another. Programs designed to make this process easy are said to be ''portable''. The success of the [Unix] OperatingSystem is largely due it being very portable.
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AddToMe: I/O ports?
TCP/IP ports?
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+!! 2. [BSD]'s package management system
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+Related to meaning 1. ''
AddToMe''
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+!! 3. TCP process identification number
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TCP/IP has
ports which when associated with an IP identify uniquely one end of a [TCP] (or [UDP]
) connection. Some ports are 'well known' and by convention programs listen on them, for instance port 22 by convention will have an ssh daemon listening on it. /etc/services (services(5)) lists all these ports.
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+!! 4. I/O ports
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+A seperate address space to talk to I/O devices. ''AddToMe''
