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From: Helmut Eller <helmut@xaital.km4u.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support.
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:18:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203071518.QAA17238@xaital.online-marketwatch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5xg03cprxi.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk)


storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> What do you think?

You are adding many features at the same time; it's a bit hard to see
what your problem actually is :-)

I think it's a _very good_ idea to rename open-network-stream to
something different, because this frees you from being backward
compatible.

Have you considered to use keyword arguments, e.g., in the spirit of
the make-socket function found in Allegro CL?
<http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/5.0.1/doc/cl/socket.htm>

It's probably a pain to parse keyword arguments in C, but it frees you
from overloading positional arguments in an unnatural way.  It would
also be quite nice to use from Lisp.  Another advantage is that you
could add new arguments without much backward compatibility
restrictions.

Another point: if someone wants to bind a socket to a specific
interface he must be able to specify the IP address, the hostname is
IMHO not sufficient for this.  Any ideas for this problem?  I propose
to make gethostbyname and related functions available to Lisp.  IP
addresses could be represented by vectors of 4 bytes (it's a pity that
32bit don't fit into a ELisp fixnum).

Yet another point: please, please, please make accept-connection a
separate function.  Then one could make a _blocking_ accept; also
accept with a timeout argument would be possible.  Would this add any
implementation complexity?

Helmut.
















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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m2u1sa7819.fsf@xaital.online-marketwatch.com>
2002-02-21 23:45 ` Non-blocking open-network-stream Kim F. Storm
2002-02-22 16:04   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-02-25 22:38   ` Kim F. Storm
2002-02-26 22:46     ` Helmut Eller
2002-02-27 11:59       ` Kim F. Storm
2002-02-28  4:08         ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-01  0:21           ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-01  8:01             ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-03-01 10:50               ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-01 17:10                 ` Pavel Janík
2002-03-01 21:23             ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-07  0:08               ` New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support Kim F. Storm
2002-03-07 10:56                 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-07 11:39                   ` Alex Schroeder
2002-03-07 12:39                     ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-07 14:51                       ` Alex Schroeder
2002-03-08 21:06                       ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-13 15:56                         ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-13 23:19                           ` Final(?) " Kim F. Storm
2002-03-14  0:50                             ` Al Petrofsky
2002-03-14  9:30                               ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-14 12:42                               ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-14 13:35                                 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-17 22:02                             ` I have installed the " Kim F. Storm
2002-03-07 15:18                   ` Helmut Eller [this message]
2002-03-07 16:09                     ` New " Kim F. Storm
2002-03-07 17:32                       ` Helmut Eller
2002-03-07 23:58                         ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-08  7:38                           ` Helmut Eller
2002-03-08  9:13                             ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-08 11:16                               ` Helmut Eller
2002-03-08 16:36                               ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-08 20:57                                 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-08 21:03                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-08 21:07                             ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-13 15:12                               ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-07 12:54                 ` Mario Lang
2002-03-07 12:58                   ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-08  9:09                 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-08  9:35                   ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-08 11:04                   ` Helmut Eller
2002-03-02  7:59             ` Non-blocking open-network-stream Helmut Eller
2002-03-03  0:12               ` Kim F. Storm
2002-03-03 10:46                 ` Helmut Eller
2002-03-03 16:44                 ` Mario Lang
2002-03-03 14:39               ` Richard Stallman

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