Re: Interest in sockets package development

[Tony Gair <tonygair@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Hi Chad


On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 21:14:42 -0400
"Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have used AdaSockets for previous projects before, but it doesn't scale up
> well since you have to allocate a task per socket due to the sockets
> blocking.  I don't mind dealing with blocking sockets in fact I prefer them
> to non-blocking sockets.  Thus what I really want so is a nice queue I can
> tell my set of sockets to drop an event into the queue so I can block a
> couple worker tasks on the queue instead of having a task per socket.  So
> far I haven't seen any LGPL'd package that does this; therefore, I have
> taken it upon myself to create such a package.  I remember a while back
> someone was complaining about how the available packages for sockets didn't
> scale up well for a large number of sockets.  It had something to do with
> the select function being difficult.  At that point I decided that I was
> going to someday (if I had the time) solve this problem even if it meant I
> had to redesign the socket interface.  So over the months whenever I got
> bored I browsed through the Winsock api's looking for a better way to
> implement a sockets package.   I figured out a nice solution a while back
> but until now I haven't had the time to implement it.  The original point of
> my post was to ask if anyone out there was interested in this development.
> 
> I remember a while back someone pointed to the original sockets package that
> GNAT.Sockets came from; I checked it out and decided that it did not satisfy
> my requirements.  I do not know if this is still true, but since I am a grad
> student I doubt that I will see Gnat(Pro) anytime soon ;)  If someone would
> like to send me the spec files for GNAT.Sockets it might save me a good deal
> of work if it turns I that I would be duplicating effort without adding
> anything new and exciting *grin*
> 
> So let us return to the original subject ...  Does anyone here have any
> interest in a sockets package that handles a large number of sockets
> elegantly?
> 
> -Chad R. Meiners
> 
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