On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 06:40:32PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:06, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:27:05AM -0800, Allison Randal wrote:
> >
> >  =head2 Network I/O Opcodes
> >
> >
> >Functionality wise, the following are missing:
> >
> >  shutdown
> 
> Added.
> 
> >  getpeername/getsockname
> >
> >  getsockopt/setsockopt
> 
> These seem rare, and intimately associated with the I/O object  
> (they're just retrieving and setting attributes), enough to be left  
> as methods.

I'd not realised how opcodes and methods were interchangeable. In which case,
I think that shutdown should also be only a method, as it is rarely needed.

> This is currently pioctl, but may be replaced by methods on the  
> ParrotIO PMCs.

Is there a draft list of the IO PMC interface hierarchy yet? With the methods
provided at each level?

Nicholas Clark

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