Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [I know there is a call to getConnection in package gtools, but > the return value is unused!]
Speaking of connections and gtools, I've been wondering if the gtools setTCPNoDelay function's method of getting the Unix file descriptor of a socket connection is safe. It's basically doing this: d <- as.integer(socketConnection("localhost", 80)[1]) Is that depending on an implementation detail that may change? I think it's useful to allow C extensions to set OS specific socket options on connection objects. But perhaps Jeffrey Horner's proposal addresses this need. - Steve ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel