OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux BSD style socket wrapper

• Posted by Ray Smith <smithr at IX.NET.AU> Aug 17, 2000
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Hi Everyone,

Some of you might remember me from a year or so ago when I asked some
Euphoria questions on the list, I'M BACK!!!!

A year ago I wanted to write a wrapper for a cross platform TCP library
called TCP4U, but I had no idea how to do it and gave up dismally.

I was playing with TCP4U with Visual Basic a few weeks ago and saw how easy
it was to write a wrapper in VB and decided to try it in Euphoria again.

I have some of the basics done and was planning to finish it in the next
month or so. I had planned doing it sooner but suddenly I have been very
busy building an indoor aviary for our new acquired pet Eclectus parrot so
I'll be putting on my handyman cap for the next week or so, then I should
be back into some Euphoria fun.

I have always had an interest in sock programming and that's about the only
reason I'm doing it ... just for fun.

TCP4U seems like a very good library that works in Windows and Linux (plus
others) and I think it has some potentional for use in Euphoria.
I'm not saying use my library (if it's ever finished) over your BSD style
wrapper cense, just mentioning it as a possible alternative.
The only reason I mentioned it is because it is related to your project.

If anyone is interested reply back.

By the way things have changed quiet a bit here in Euphoria land in the
last year or so.  It has really progressed very nicely.  The Euphoria
community has always been friendly and helpful.

Regards,

Ray Smith


>as a few of you may remember ( not many i dont think ) i told this list a
while
>ago that i was working on a full set of BSD style socket wrappers for the
>GNU/Linux platform. Well i have once again started working on the project
and i
>am close to completion.



>
>I was just wondering whether there is still ( was there ever? ) any demand
for
>such a product on this list? If there is i will make sure to send a copy
of it
>to Rob when i am done. If not, i dont think i will bother.
>
>One more thing, writing the documentation for such a project is long and
>tedious. I was wondering whether someone might want to help me out and
write
>some of routine reference with me. I have a system of doin this so all i
really
>need is just more man power. Here is what a sample of the routine reference
>looks like:
>
>### leftsock routine reference ###
>
>listed here are all the euphoria linux ( bsd ) socket routines leftsock
allows you
>to use. they are all in alphabetical order and each one has a description
on how
>to use it in a euphoria program.
>
>these are the constants that will be used throught the function reference:
>
>sd                      -> socket descriptor
>a                       -> atom
>i                       -> integer
>ci                      -> "C" int
>ul                      -> "C" unsigned long int
>us                      -> "C" unsigned short int
>ui                      -> "C" unsigned int
>ch                      -> "C" char
>ptr                     -> pointer to memory
>s                       -> generic sequence
>addr_in                 -> sequence where { sin_family, sin_port, s_addr,
sin_zero }
>
>//=========================================================================
==========\\
>
>routine: accept
>syntax:  accept( ci, addr_in, ci2 )
>
>description: the accept function this allows a socket server to accept
connections
>             from clients. returns "status" where 0 = error, 1+ = clean
execution
>
>example:
>
>integer status
>sequence myaddr_in
>
>-- populate the myaddr_in sequence
>
>status = accept( sd, myaddr_in, sizeof( myaddr_in ) )
>
>//=========================================================================
==========\\
>
>thanks for any responses to this post.
>
>--
>cense
>a member of the
>ak-software development team
>http://www.ak-software.com/