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Article #5801Re: Linux and Windows compatible Client/Server apps using UDP and TCP/IP without any components?
From: Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 05:20
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 05:20
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"Martin James" <mjames_falcon@dial.pipex.com> wrote in
news:4089b966@newsgroups.borland.com:
> IMHO, 'blocking components' are a bit of a kludge anyway since you
> nearly always end up having to instantiate them in a thread class unless
Lets not start this debate again - but blocking sockets are NOT a kludge. If
I had to choose one that was a kludge - it would be not blocking ones,
espcecially if you look at history of sockets and why message based ones were
created under Windows.
That being said - we are talking Linux. Linux natively supports blocking
sockets and its how nearly all servers are implemented. Thats hardly a
kludge.
Linux does not support non blocking as Windows does. Instead in addition to
blocking sockets it has something more similar to overlapped I/O.
Finally threads/forking is not kludge either. In fact Linux is full of them -
and just because something is often used with it does not make it a "kludge".
By your definition, Linux is one big kludge itself.
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