ADSM-L

Re: tsm unix client internal request

2003-03-18 10:08:57
Subject: Re: tsm unix client internal request
From: Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:08:13 -0500
>I'm looking either for a c decompiler (if there is such a thing) because I
>heard once the tsm was programmed in c. I would love to look at the source
>code of the unix tsm client and possibly the unix tsm server.
>
>If anyone has some documentation on the code of the unix tsm client (dsmc)
>I'd love to see it. thanks!.

Justin, you're dreaming.  :-)
There are "decompilers", but the best they can do in most cases is generate
the machine language instructions from the object code.  Realize that any
single high-level language statement may generate any sequence of object code
with any number of machine instructions - and that varies from compiler to
compiler and optimization level.  Attempting to reinterpret some object code
sequence back into C is virtually impossible.  And expecting understandable
output, without structure or comments, is unattainable.

The product source code is proprietary and unavailable to us.  Most vendors
stipulate in their licenses that attempts at "reverse engineering" is a
conspicuous violation of the license.

You're a customer.  Live in the dark like the rest of us!  ;-)

  Richard Sims, BU

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