Re: Linux and Windows compatible Client/Server apps using UDP and TCP/IP without any components?

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From: Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:40

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"Eugene Mayevski [SecureBlackbox]" <mayevski@eldos.org> wrote in
news:408cb3a2@newsgroups.borland.com: 
> Chad, are you talking about synchronous/asynchronous or 
> blocking/non-blocking? Linux does support non-blocking sockets using 
> ioctl(O_NONBLOCK)

Yes, I mentioned then. They are "non blocking" but not the same as on 
Windows. They are more like overlapped I/O.

> In linux, where threads == processes (with some minor difference of 
> threads having common memory), creation of threads takes additional time
> (not talking about the fact that it's impossible to debug secondary 
> threads with Kylix or Kdbg or KDevelop's debugger).

Yes, thats why I said threads/fork where forking on Unix is much more common, 
alhtough threading is becoming quite common as well.



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Subject: Re: Linux and Windows compatible Client/Server apps using UDP and TCP/IP without any components?
From: "Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu" <cpub@hower.org>
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