From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Interest in sockets package development
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 21:14:42 -0400
Date: 2001-09-09T21:14:42-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9nh3qi$14m6$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9neodq$1vcs$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-10 1:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-09 3:47 Interest in sockets package development Chad R. Meiners
2001-09-09 4:48 ` David Botton
2001-09-09 13:41 ` Florian Weimer
2001-09-10 14:21 ` Marin David Condic
[not found] ` <002901c138ea$bb6d26c0$0100a8c0@DBINSPIRON>
2001-09-09 11:59 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
[not found] ` <05a601c13926$e6f34e50$1600000a@dhoossr>
2001-09-09 14:48 ` David Botton
2001-09-09 18:29 ` Simon Wright
2001-09-09 19:52 ` tmoran
2001-09-10 1:14 ` Chad R. Meiners [this message]
2001-09-10 4:28 ` tmoran
2001-09-10 7:41 ` Tony Gair
2001-09-10 7:59 ` Tony Gair
2001-09-10 14:16 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-10 19:11 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2001-09-10 21:43 ` Chad R. Meiners
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox