Re: Initial SCTP support for the upcoming 1.6.5 release

[Michael Tuexen]

Dear all,

with the hints of Kevin I got my stuff working.

I need besides the static functions from socket.c the
SCM_SYSCALL stuff from libguile/_scm.h. This is file is
not installed. So is there a chance to move the SCM_SYSCALL
stuff from _scm.h to __scm.h? If not, I have to duplicate
the code, which is not a problem...

I have another question: How can I make the documentation included
in the SCM_DEFINE makro available from scheme. My C code contains

SCM_DEFINE (net_sctp_sendmsg, "sctp-sendmsg", 8, 0, 1,
            (SCM sock, SCM message, SCM ppid, SCM stream_no, SCM ttl,  
SCM context, SCM fam, SCM address, SCM args_and_flags),
            "Transmit the string @var{message} on the socket port\n"
            "@var{sock}.  The\n"
	    "parameters @var{ppid}, @var{stream_no}, @var{ttl} and   
@var{context}\n"
            "are the corresponding SCTP parameters. The\n"
            "destination address is specified using the @var{fam},\n"
            "@var{address} and\n"
            "@var{args_and_flags} arguments, in a similar way to the\n"
            "@code{connect} procedure.  @var{args_and_flags} contains\n"
            "the usual connection arguments optionally followed by\n"
            "a flags argument, which is a value or\n"
            "bitwise OR of MSG_UNORDERED, MSG_ABORT, MSG_EOF etc.\n\n"
            "The value returned is the number of bytes transmitted\n"
            "Note that the data is written directly to the socket\n"
            "file descriptor:\n"
            "any unflushed buffered port data is ignored.")
#define FUNC_NAME s_net_sctp_sendmsg
{
  /* missing the code */
  return SCM_MAKINUM (rv);
}
#undef FUNC_NAME


but on the scheme side it is not available like the documentation
for the socket() call, which is defined in libguile/socket.c:

guile> (use-modules (net sctp))
guile> (help socket)
`socket' is a primitive procedure in the (guile) module.

 - Scheme Procedure: socket family style proto
     Return a new socket port of the type specified by FAMILY, STYLE
     and PROTO.  All three parameters are integers.  Supported values
     for FAMILY are `AF_UNIX', `AF_INET' and `AF_INET6'.  Typical
     values for STYLE are `SOCK_STREAM', `SOCK_DGRAM' and `SOCK_RAW'.

     PROTO can be obtained from a protocol name using `getprotobyname'.
     A value of zero specifies the default protocol, which is usually
     right.

     A single socket port cannot by used for communication until it has
     been connected to another socket.


guile> (help sctp-sendmsg)
No documentation found for:
(net sctp): sctp-sendmsg

Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards
Michael

On Aug 24, 2004, at 1:27 PM, Michael Tuexen wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> see my comments below.
>
> Best regards
> Michael
>
> On Aug 24, 2004, at 2:57 AM, Kevin Ryde wrote:
>
> > Michael Tuexen <address@hidden> writes:
> > > Since the set/getsockopt function does not reference any specific
> > > structure
> > > it would be a possibility of have it provided as generic as it is in  
> > > C
> > > and
> > > I would write some scheme functions to transfer the SCTP specific  
> > > data
> > > into the generic one.
> >
> > It's probably better to make replacement functions that do their
> > specifics then call the core.
> >
> > (If there were many semi-independent modules going to do that then
> > some sort of hook arrangement would be better, but a replacement will
> > work initially at least.)
> So I just define my own setsockopt and it will 'overwrite' the existing
> one. That'll work. I was not sure if I can just define another function
> with the same name and that will overwrite the existing one.
> > > I have not found an example for C based modules for guile yet.
> >
> > load-extension I think, per "A Sample Guile Extension" and "Putting
> > Extensions into Modules" in the manual.  More indexing in the manual
> > might help when looking for such stuff.
> I was looking at
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/guile-ref/Dynamic- 
> Libraries.html#Dynamic%20Libraries
>
> under the title "Modules"
> not at "A Whirlwind Tour" where I find under
> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/guile-ref/A-Sample-Guile- 
> Extension.html#A%20Sample%20Guile%20Extension
> the Extension stuff... Thank you very much for the hint.
>
> > > Everything distributed with guile is scheme based, I think.
> >
> > Cf srfi/srfi-13 and 14, and guile-readline/ice-9/readline.scm.
> Ahh. I have not found them. I was looking at ice-9...
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
> >
>
>
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