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diff --git a/doc/platform-requirements/README b/doc/platform-requirements/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3914d22 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/platform-requirements/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Platform Requirements +===================== + +TODO: document the various Linux specific features we currently require + + +Test Programs +------------- + +In some places we rely on quite specific behaviour of sockets. +Although Linux, at least, seems to behave as required, It's not always +clear from the available documentation if this is required by POSIX or +some other specification. + +To specifically document those expectations this directory has some +test programs which explicitly check for the behaviour we need. +When/if we attempt a port to a new platform, running these to check +behaviour would be a good place to start. |