Re: [TCLCORE] TIP #391: Support for UDP Sockets in Tcl

[Donal K. F. <don...@ma...>]

On 04/11/2011 13:44, Frédéric Bonnet wrote:
> Le 04/11/2011 05:44, Tomasz Kosiak a écrit :
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Steve Bennett<st...@wo...
>>
>> AFAIK syslogd reads messages from the the UNIX domain *datagram* socket.
>
> Does this mean that with proper support, a Tcl-only extension could talk to
> syslogd? Interesting.

If we support datagram sending with appropriate addressing schemes, yes. 
Right now, we lack the datagram support and our stream sockets don't 
support the right addressing scheme either.

Of course, if we're doing it right then writing syslog itself in pure 
Tcl will be entirely practical. :-)

Donal.