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"Dumboo" <dumboo@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> i have created a small server(using RAW BSD Socket API),
> which is by default in Blocking mode, i want to convert it to
> a non-blocking mode using only BSD Socket API's so that
> the server is portable across platoforms, is it possible ?

As far as I know, non-blocking sockets are a Microsoft Windows construct,
they are based on HWND windows and posting window message notifications.
Other platforms use just blocking sockets.

With that said, under MSWindows/WinSock at least, non-blocking sockets are
enabled using ioctlsocket(FIONBIO) and then utilizing the various WSA...()
functions introduced in WinSock for asynchronous socket operations, such as
WSAAsyncGetHostByName(), WSAAsyncSelect(), etc. in addition to the standard
socket functions such as socket(), connect(), listen(), etc.  I do not know
whether FIONBIO or the WSA...() functions are available under other
platforms besides MSWindows.


Gambit


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