headless vm changes suggestions

Maloney johnm at wdi.disney.com
Mon Mar 23 20:14:09 UTC 1998


At 10:28 AM -0800 3/23/98, Craig Latta wrote:
>Hi John--
>
>> Just to clarify: this issue is Win32-specific. The way Win32 signals
>> changes of network socket status (data arrivied, other end closed, etc.)
>> is through events that are placed in the window's event list.
>> On other platforms, such notifications are handled in other ways,
>> such as by using an asynchronous callback.
>
> Did my previous message on this subject get through?
>
> Win32s supports threads. For each socket, one could have a thread for
>reading/connecting, and a thread for writing, and use blocking procedure calls
>in each. The procedure calls themselves conform to the BSD sockets API (like
>the other platforms), and the thread overhead is small, whereas the win32s
>async stuff is unique and platform-dependent.
>
> Why not do this?

Well, it sounds like more work than just the few changes to
the VM startup code that Tim R. suggested. It might be easy,
but I'll let Andreas be the judge.

	-- John





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