[Q] What is the status of the "network rewrite?"

Stephen Pair stephen at pairhome.net
Thu Aug 28 13:47:38 UTC 2003


Chris Muller wrote:

>>The low level interface to Socket hasn't changed that much in the 
>>rewrite. You can see the difference by comparing the ocde in OldSocket 
>>and Socket. You may also want to consider using SocketStream to put a 
>>stram abstraction between your server code and the network/Socket 
>>communication.
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Michael, thanks for your prompt reply.  The first thing I did was compare
>OldSocket to Socket and I noticed an implementation difference other than API. 
>OldSocket>>waitForAcceptUntil: appears to have been renamed in
>Socket>>waitForAcceptFor:.  However, the new method does not return the new
>socket instance which is a critical bug, I think.
>

I posted a change set a couple weeks back that fixes that bug...it's in 
the update stream (5398 I believe).

- Stephen



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