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...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 14, 1999 11:34 am
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... The catching was turned off. I could still input the character. You can type ctrl-c into a string like you can any other character if the catching is...
Jason Winnebeck
gillius@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 14, 1999 11:53 pm
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I've tested Richard's SERVER.C program. Here is a precice log of what happened. It seems to work (almost) as expected from his e-mail. Here is a screenshot...
Jason Winnebeck
gillius@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 15, 1999 3:20 am
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... Oops, I meant -1 & errno = EOPNOTSUPP -- ... Richard Dawe | richdawe@... | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 15, 1999 11:58 pm
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Hello. ... Excellent! It hasn't crashed my computer for a while either. Ah, stability. ... Now I'm really confused. ... Well, I can't see any problems with the...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 15, 1999 11:48 pm
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Hello. Here's what I'm trying to do on libsocket at the moment: 1. Put in Alain's suggestions for the functions. This is easy, just simple editing. 2. Add some...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 16, 1999 12:06 am
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Hello. ... Excellent. It seems I forgot to mention that I typed really quickly when using telnet, hence my longer messages displayed by the program. ... ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 15, 1999 11:42 pm
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... The result was totally 100% instantaneous. Even if I held down the key the .25 second repeat wouldn't catch it anyways. ... I don't really know anything...
Jason Winnebeck
gillius@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 16, 1999 1:55 am
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Bonjour The skeleton for accept.txh. Feel free to change everything. -- alain @comment The start of a comment is indicated by the following comment. This ...
Alain Magloire
alainm@xxxx.xxx.xxxxx...
Jun 17, 1999 3:56 am
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Bonjour Since I was doing the texinfo for accept and had a peek at accept.c I have somme comments/questions, they all start with the C++ // Base on your...
Alain Magloire
alainm@xxxx.xxx.xxxxx...
Jun 17, 1999 4:11 am
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Bonjour M. Richard Dawe ... Ha ok. BTW, what I'm sending are IMHO, meaning you are free to accept or reject them as you see fit. ... This is great news. If...
Alain Magloire
alainm@xxxx.xxx.xxxxx...
Jun 18, 1999 3:10 am
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Hello. ... Cool name. I should reread his docs. ... Nope, I recently upgraded to that. I hear bad things about 2.8.0 being buggy, but I never noticed anything...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 18, 1999 9:44 pm
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Hello! ... Most socket functions have the same initial code, or at least similar. So, I could apply the relevant changes to all the functions. It shouldn't be ...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 18, 1999 9:32 pm
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Hello. ... This is more complicated, but worth it. ... Well, the Watt-32 author today asked the author of WatTCP about the licence on the Watt-32 mailing list,...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 18, 1999 11:09 pm
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Hello. Well, here's the result of the licence query. I've asked about the less restrictive GNU LGPL licence instead of GPL on the list. I'll forward the result...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 19, 1999 12:01 am
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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Richard Dawe wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>From: Richard Dawe <richdawe@...> ...
Jason Winnebeck
gillius@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 19, 1999 4:01 am
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Hello! ... Nothing. From the traceback of the crash in send(), the crash is in __fd_to_lsd(). The only way this could happen is when dereferencing a NULL...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 29, 1999 7:37 pm
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Hello! ... Thanks! I modified it slightly (see attached). BTW the '@portability' info directive isn't part of the standard texinfo format, as you (and I)...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 29, 1999 7:16 pm
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Bonjour ... Ok, Noted. ... ^^^^^^ ... BTW, thanks for the reminder, I'll send the rest during the week(connect,bind, listen,isfdtype) -- au revoir, alain ... ...
Alain Magloire
alainm@xxxx.xxx.xxxxx...
Jun 30, 1999 3:46 am
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Hello. I wrote a Perl script today to semi-convert man pages into texinfo includes. This may be useful for making the info docs. Primarily this intended to...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 2, 1999 7:05 pm
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Hello. I think I may have a fix for the send bug experienced by Jason Winnebeck. Another glance at the SOCK.VXD sources showed that send() was returning the...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 2, 1999 7:01 pm
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Hello. ... It appears that my fears about the WatTCP licence were unfounded. I can now proceed to add DOS networking support to libsocket. Also, if we need to...
Richard Dawe
richdawe@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 3, 1999 12:22 am
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Bonjour Ok, I'm not totally familiar with DJGPP FSEXT yet. So ... 1) redundant check int __lsck_socket_fsext (__FSEXT_Fnumber func_number, int *rv, va_list...