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Re: Winsock wrappers
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: Winsock wrappers |
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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:20:49 +0200 |
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>> Maybe gnutls could provide adaptors from read/write to the signature
>> needed for gnulib's transport functions? That would be good enough to
>> avoid duplication in client applications.
>
> I think this was what I meant above, but I'm not sure I understand you.
> What I see gnutls defining would be something like:
>
> ssize_t gnutls_gnulib_pull (gnutls_transport_ptr_t, void *, size_t);
> ssize_t gnutls_gnulib_push (gnutls_transport_ptr_t, const void *, size_t);
>
> These would be implemented using gnulib's replacement send/recv
> functions.
Instead you could have gnutls_pull_read and gnutls_push_write, not using
gnulib's replacement send/recv. These could be useful on POSIX systems
too (though not that much).
>> More or less. Actually, the flag could be just "use send/recv or
>> read/write?" because of what I said above, and that means that it could
>> be done without including lib/winsock.c or other similarly unwanted
>> baggage into gnutls.
>
> Are you saying that read/write on the socket would work under Windows?
Yes, if the socket is created using gnulib's socket (which uses
WSASocket to disable overlapped mode).
> Does it respect (non-)blocking settings?
Yes.
Paolo
- Winsock wrappers, Simon Josefsson, 2008/10/08
- Re: Winsock wrappers, Bruno Haible, 2008/10/08
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- Re: Winsock wrappers, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/10/09
- Re: Winsock wrappers, Simon Josefsson, 2008/10/09
- Re: Winsock wrappers, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/10/09
- Re: Winsock wrappers, Simon Josefsson, 2008/10/09
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- Re: Winsock wrappers, Bruno Haible, 2008/10/10
- Re: Winsock wrappers, Simon Josefsson, 2008/10/10
- Re: Winsock wrappers, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/10/10
- Re: getaddrinfo and sa_len, Bruno Haible, 2008/10/10
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