23 Jan
2004
23 Jan
'04
4:26 p.m.
I remember someone asking for a tcp library ... was it Phillip ?
Nyways, check this out
http://www.laurentconstantin.com/en/netw/netwib/
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23 Jan
23 Jan
4:38 p.m.
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, linuxdev wrote:
I remember someone asking for a tcp library ... was it
Phillip ?
No, it was Philip. With a single l.
Nyways, check this out
http://www.laurentconstantin.com/en/netw/netwib/
I've decided to stop development of my library anyway, since a socket
library will soon make it into the standard C++ distribution.
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7:59 p.m.
Philip S Tellis writes:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, linuxdev wrote:
When you are refering to the standard C++ distribtion, I believe you are
refering to libstdc++ shipped with GCC.
I did look here -> http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/ but wasn't able get much
info. also googling did not help much.
can you mail me a pointer to the networking library/ location where u got
this info??
Vinayak Hegde
I remember someone asking for a tcp library ...
was it Phillip ?
No, it was Philip. With a single l.
Nyways, check this out
http://www.laurentconstantin.com/en/netw/netwib/
I've decided to stop
development of my library anyway, since a socket
library will soon make it into the standard C++ distribution.
4:41 p.m.
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, linuxdev wrote:
seems good, thanks.
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5:18 p.m.
Sorry for this stupid question, but I am wondering what extra functionality
can these libraries provide that is not provided by that standard C library
?
Is it with an aim to simplify protocol usage for DNS, SMTP etc etc ?
Also, I did not understand the part in the original post that spoke about
not using threads. Coming from a Java environment, I am used to doing
blocked I/O on sockets in threads (not using the NIO packages), and using
an event notification mechanism when data is received etc. Is that not an
easier approach than using poll() or select() ??
Can someone please give me some insight into this ?
Thanks, and as mentioned earlier, sorry if this post sounds silly.
Shahed
5:53 p.m.
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Shahed Moolji wrote:
Sorry for this stupid question, but I am wondering
what extra
functionality can these libraries provide that is not provided by that
standard C library ?
It just provides an added layer of abstraction so the programmer can
worry about doing his job rather than debugging socket calls.
Is it with an aim to simplify protocol usage for DNS,
SMTP etc etc ?
yes, something like that.
Also, I did not understand the part in the original
post that spoke
about not using threads. Coming from a Java environment, I am used to
doing blocked I/O on sockets in threads (not using the NIO packages),
and using an event notification mechanism when data is received etc.
Is that not an easier approach than using poll() or select() ??
Except this wouldn't work in a single threaded environment. Having
multiple threads would also increase the weight of the process. Using
select would not. Finally, threads throw up concurrency issues that add
to the complexity of the program and allow subtle bugs to creep in. The
programmer should really be doing his job rather than worrying about
mutexs.
Also, there is no standard threading library in C (AFAIK). pthreads
isn't really standard, although you'd find it wherever you find gcc.
I may be wrong, so correct me if you think so.
Philip
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