Re: [boost] Re: Thoughts on Socket (was: New file uploaded to boost)

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-12-28 10:26:08

At 07:37 AM 12/28/2000 +0000, Joseph Berrios wrote:

 >I did some research on the MAC Socket interface.  I was surprised to
 >find that the MAC Socket API is not compatible with the BSD Socket
 >interface.  But there does exist an implementation of BSD Sockets for
 >the Mac.  GUSI (Grand Unified Socket Interface) is a library that
 >implementes BSD style sockets on the Mac.  I beleive that with this
 >library, my Socket library can be ported to the Mac.  You can find
 >more information and download this library at:
 >
 >http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri/macintosh/gusi-qa.html#Q1

Python has a socket library.  The blurb reads "This module provides access 
to the BSD socket interface. It is available on all modern Unix systems, 
Windows, MacOS, BeOS, OS/2, and probably additional platforms."

See http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-socket.html

So it looks like it is possible to provide that interface on a wide variety 
of platforms.  You might want to look at the docs since "The Python 
interface is a straightforward transliteration of the Unix system call and 
library interface for sockets to Python's object-oriented style: the 
socket() function returns a socket object whose methods implement the 
various socket system calls. Parameter types are somewhat higher-level than 
in the C interface: as with read() and write() operations on Python files, 
buffer allocation on receive operations is automatic, and buffer length is 
implicit on send operations."

--Beman