jrohel/NetMount server-v1.1.0

NetMount client version 1.3.0 and server version 1.1.0

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Changes in netmount client version 1.2.0 -> 1.3.0:

• Added support for IP header checksum validation
• Configurable checksums: Adds a new argument /CHECKSUMS:<names> to the mount command.
  names is a list of checksums to use. Allowed values ​​are IP_HEADER and NETMOUNT. By default, both are used.

Changes in netmount server version 1.0.2 -> 1.1.0:
The original code was written for Linux. In addition to standard functions (C++20, C11, POSIX), it also used non-standard functions. Now the code is multiplatform. The use of non-standard functions has been replaced by the new code. The code is POSIX compatible. And code for Microsoft Windows has been added. The non-standard code is only for FAT attribute support in Linux, which is handled by conditional translation. For other platforms, FAT attributes are not addressed.

Thus, the server is a cross-platform application for POSIX-compliant operating systems (Linux, *BSD, macOS, etc.) and Microsoft Windows.

Binaries
I prefer to distribute the server as source code. The server is easy to compile. It has minimal dependencies. It only needs basic libraries that are commonly available on the system. However, I have been asked to build a statically linked binary of the server (for example for a NAS without a compiler). Therefore, I have included several statically linked server builds for Linux and MS Windows in the release. The Windows builds have been tested under Wine. I do not know what versions of Windows it will run on.

The release includes the complete NetMount source code (server and DOS client) and:

• 2 builds of the DOS client: for 8086 and 80286 CPUs
• 2 builds of server for Windows: for i686 and x86_64 (cross-compiled using MinGW on Linux, tested using Wine on Linux)
• 4 builds of server for Linux: i686, x86_64, ARM aarch64 big endian, ARM aarch64 little endian (ARM binaries tested using QEMU)