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

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From: Eugene Mayevski [SecureBlackbox]
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:14
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Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote:

> But require polling, they dont send Windows messages which is how they are 
> normally used in Windows. Its very rare to use non blocking sockets in 
> Windows without using Windows messages, unless you are using overlapped I/O.

No, they require using select(). In Windows this scenario is exactly the 
same. This is how we build most socket operations. Asynchronous Windows 
IO is unreliable and has some differences between documented and factual 
behaviour.

-- 
Eugene Mayevski
EldoS Corp., CTO
Security and networking solutions
http://www.eldos.com
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