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Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support.


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support.
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:06:12 -0700 (MST)

    We could rename the C-level function to, say, open-network-connection
    and write lisp-level wrappers (in simple.el) around it like
    open-network-stream, open-network-stream-nowait, open-network-stream-server,
    open-local-stream-nowait, open-local-stream, open-local-stream-server,
    open-datagram-server, open-datagram-client,
    etc. etc.  

That is taking things to an absurd extreme.  We certainly do not want
to define all these as separate functions--it would be cumbersome.

However, to have two or three convenience or compatibility functions
for a few larger categories of cases could be a good idea.





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