Re: [Plib-devel] Networking Code

[Sam S. <sa...@sp...>]

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From: "Ben Woodhead" <be...@bg...>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 3:15 PM
Subject: RE: [Plib-devel] Networking Code


> Thanks, I have that, and I am trying to read through it, but I am new to c
> and c++ so you can amagine how fun it is. Luckly, I have some of steves
> code, that uses structures in c++ so I have been able to get passed some of
> the problems but its not fun.
> Thanks for the site.

ACE is built upon on single core class ACE_OS, which provides a single Unix/POSIX like interface to all the standard thread and
socket calls.

This is mostly done in ACE_OS.h as a large bunch of #ifdef's.  I haven't really studied it that much, but it might be worthwhile
having a look.

(One gottcha I should point out is that almost all the higher level ACE applications use recv and send - not read and write (these
calls are supposed to be identical), with the result that ACE_OS::read and ACE_OS::write appear to be broken under Win2000 with ACE
(This might actually be problems with WinSock under Win2K I haven't investigated)).

You could always strip ACE_OS out of ACE (shouldn't be *that* hard), and then you have a bunch of platform independant OS calls for
sockets and threads - and ACE supports a *lot* of platforms.

Sam