[mercury-users] socket support in io

[Thomas Conway]

On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:23:12AM EST, Michael Day wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> has anyone done any socket programming in Mercury before? There do not
> appear to be any socket functions in the io module; would it make sense
> for an application to define its own in such a way as to allow use of the
> io routines for acting on binary streams?
> 
> However, from what I can see the io module does not appear to have
> inherent support for non-blocking io either. Is it worth an application
> attempting to extend the io module at all, or just carve out its own? Are
> there any significant changes waiting in the future for the io module?

I have a posix-subset that includes facilities for non-blocking IO.
It's not compatible with the IO module (it uses file descriptors not
mercury streams). If you like I could post it. It's uncommented at this
stage, and has only partial coverage of the posix standard, but if you
were to add to it, noone would complain. :-)

Thomas
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 Thomas Conway )O+     Every sword has two edges.
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