Hello. I'd like to announce the 3rd beta of libsocket 0.7.4, a BSD-style socket library for DJGPP. This beta release fixes many bugs, principally in the...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 7, 1999 12:31 am
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Hello. [ I've CC'd this to the libsocket list, because I've never actually documented my attempts at DOS support for libsocket. So, here it is. ] Being the...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 9, 1999 11:53 pm
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Hello. One of the users of my library seems to be having some bizarre problems with SOCK.VXD under Windows '98. I've attached a mail that describes the ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 10, 1999 7:27 pm
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Hello! [ This message seemed general enough to forward to the libsocket list, so I did. ] ... Here is the breakdown of how it works: There are two interfaces...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 11, 1999 6:29 pm
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Recently some of you may have seen my error with the select() statement, and I found a possible reason for this. When it failed, I tried to simply poll with...
Jason Winnebeck
gillius@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 15, 1999 7:56 pm
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Hello. I've just set up the libsocket Development site. So far there isn't a whole lot there - just the extremely unfinished Interface Writers Guide, which...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 16, 1999 12:31 am
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Hello. ... Is this on Win95 + Winsock 2 again? I would test this combination, but my Win95 won't work after installing the Winsock 2 upgrade - don't know why, ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 16, 1999 1:11 am
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Hello. You can now download the 1999-05-16 snapshot of libsocket from: http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/lsckdev/lsckdev.htm Here is the changelog: ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 16, 1999 12:54 am
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Hello. ... <snip> ... Well, I just tried a non-blocking accept() version of demo/server.c (attached) on Win95 with Winsock 1.x using the csock interface & it...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 16, 1999 4:14 pm
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Hello. I noticed a couple of stupid bugs in the snapshot today, in src/csock/c_accept.c and include/lsck/copyrite.h. The bug in __csock_accept() is unlikely to...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 16, 1999 4:06 pm
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Bonjour ... This is great !! I applaude the move. -- au revoir, alain ... Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!...
Alain Magloire
alainm@xxxx.xxx.xxxxx...
May 16, 1999 8:02 pm
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Hello. I've been doing some lateral thinking about the problems Jason Winnebeck has reported when using libsocket with Win95+Winsock2. Could you try adding the...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 26, 1999 3:24 pm
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I would just like you remind you Richard, that I only had the problems with send() in Windows 98, NOT Windows 95 with winsock 2. However I believe when I ...
Jason Winnebeck
gillius@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 26, 1999 10:01 pm
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Okay. I tried your suggestions, and unfortunately nothing worked. The first time I tried, I tried with the current released version 0743, and it didn't work,...
Jason Winnebeck
gillius@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 26, 1999 10:35 pm
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I tried connecting to the server while it was in the bugged, non-blocking -- but really still blocking state. I thought that simply the port had just turned...
Jason Winnebeck
gillius@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 27, 1999 2:49 am
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Hello. ... Thanks for trying anyhow. ... <snip> ... OK, I have a few points: 1. csock, the Winsock 2 module, doesn't setsockopt() *at all*. See the FAQ for...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 27, 1999 12:12 am
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Hello. I just took another look at you chat program, and it seems that you check the return codes for bind() & accept() are non-zero, i.e. if (bind(...)) { ......
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 27, 1999 7:04 pm
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... Are you sure? The programs I made before didn't work at all until I added this line. If I had a socket open then had a bug then I could never use winsock...
Jason Winnebeck
gillius@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 28, 1999 4:15 am
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... Allright I'll check, but I would suspect to find an error with accept once it gets there. ... Would this stop it from getting to libsocket first? I think...
Jason Winnebeck
gillius@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 28, 1999 4:17 am
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Hello. ... <snip> ... [ Oops, I meant "doesn't support setsockopt()". ] The Winsock 2 code definitely does not support setsockopt(). The Winsock 1.1 code...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 28, 1999 6:53 pm
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Hello. Jason Winnebeck wrote: <snip> ... My point was that your conditional code was checking for the wrong return values. ... Well, if your program caught...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 28, 1999 6:58 pm
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... I thought non-zero was error? ... Okay. I disabled this. And this is interesting -- Before connecting the server/client asks for the users name to be...
Jason Winnebeck
gillius@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 29, 1999 1:23 am
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Hello. While trying to work out the problems with accept() with Winsock 2 experienced by Jason Winnebeck, I found a bug in __csock_accept(). The bug would...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 8, 1999 3:03 pm
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Hello. ... OK, I was just being pedantic. -1 is non-zero, but non-zero numbers don't all signal an error - only -1 does. I guess "wrong" was a little strong. ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 8, 1999 3:13 pm
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Hello. I am looking for people to help develop libsocket. libsocket is a BSD socket networking library for DJGPP, which currently supports TCP/IP and UDP/IP....
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 9, 1999 6:56 pm
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Bonjour ... Allow me to start the party : Posix.1g(still a draft) defines to std interface for networking the XTI and the Sockets, I don't think will do XTI. ...
Alain Magloire
alainm@xxxx.xxx.xxxxx...
Jun 10, 1999 2:36 am
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Bonjour One day, I will upgrade to a PIII with 512Megs of RAM and 9 Gigs. I've lost the info skeletons files for libsocket on my i386 Linux box... sigh .. what...
Alain Magloire
alainm@xxxx.xxx.xxxxx...
Jun 11, 1999 7:39 pm
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Hello! ... If the POSIX.1g standard roughly the same as Unix98? Unix98 seems to have XTI too. I think we should leave XTI until someone is eager enough to ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 11, 1999 2:11 pm
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Bonjour ... Yes Unix98 is a superset of Posix. ... Yes the move now is to use size_t and ssize_t instead of int that may break some old code, especially if you...
Alain Magloire
alainm@xxxx.xxx.xxxxx...
Jun 12, 1999 1:55 am
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Hello! ... Ah, yes, the old 16-bit vs. 32-bit integer problem. What should I define ssize_t to: 'long'. ... DJGPP doesn't come with readv() in libc. libsocket...