In our previous episode, Andrew Brunner said: > Sockets programming often requires a poll for how much data is > available on a particular socket descriptor. > > I'm porting an inhouse library for a sockets implementation and I > realize that while I have a FpIOCtl call in the baseUnix unit I have > no such animal in the Sockets implement which would be cross platform. > Winsock does support this call and was wondering if someone wants to > just use the windows sockets implement in the Sockets unit instead of > using conditional definitions.
See http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=14701 , it is about the same problem with select. Bottom line: new unit, not in sockets. These are border cases, and while both Unix and Windows have it in *some* form, the usage might not be the same. The sockets unit is now fairly orthogonal, so lets keep it that way, and not increase porting burden. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
