Comment by t-3
10 months ago
I'm pretty sure I've even read about FreeBSD code in the Windows networking stack. Is Windows now based on BSD? Open source code, especially when it's permissively licensed, ends up absolutely everywhere.
10 months ago
I'm pretty sure I've even read about FreeBSD code in the Windows networking stack. Is Windows now based on BSD? Open source code, especially when it's permissively licensed, ends up absolutely everywhere.
Windows is very much based on NT, which has its influences from a few different OS, most notably being VMS.
AFAIK there isn’t any BSD code in Windows however the original TCP/IP stack in Windows was a port from BSD. But we are talking about the early 90s here and it’s long since been rewritten by Microsoft (or so they say, but I have no reason to disbelieve Microsoft)
For NT 3.1, Microsoft purchased a TCP/IP stack from Spider Systems[0]. It's not clear how much of that code was based on BSD's TCP/IP stack. Microsoft wrote their own TCP/IP stack for NT 3.5.[1]
Microsoft did leverage BSD code for common network utilities (ping, tracert, ftp, etc.), which still exist in Windows today, although Microsoft's preference is to leverage the "better" equivalent PowerShell cmdlets where available.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_Systems
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20151229084950/http://www.kuro5h...
EDIT: If you want to hunt for BSD code, try taking a look at NT4[2].
[2] https://github.com/lianthony/NT4.0/tree/master/private/ntos/...
The BSD TCP/IP stack went away when Vista was released, it is long gone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_networking_techn...
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