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Re: Final(?) patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support.
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Final(?) patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support. |
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Thu, 14 Mar 2002 05:42:33 -0700 (MST) |
It's always been a bit confusing that emacs uses the term process for
sockets that have no associated process. That confusion will get a
little worse now that emacs processes will include server and datagram
sockets, which don't even share processes' stream-like nature.
In principle, you are right, but practically speaking it would be a
lot of work to change this. I see no simple name word that does
clearly fit process-or-stream-or-network-port, so any alternative
would have its own drawbacks, even if they are lesser drawbacks.
Meanwhile, working with process objects is a fairly advanced part of
Emacs Lisp programming. I think the people who write such programs
can cope with a suboptimal name.
I'm not saying we should rename everything now to fix this, but I
think it would help if the start of the "make-network-process" doc
string immediately disclaimed any relationship to a unix process.
That would be a good idea.
- New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., (continued)
- New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/06
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/07
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Alex Schroeder, 2002/03/07
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/07
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Alex Schroeder, 2002/03/07
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Richard Stallman, 2002/03/08
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/13
- Final(?) patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/13
- Re: Final(?) patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Al Petrofsky, 2002/03/13
- Re: Final(?) patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/14
- Re: Final(?) patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support.,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Final(?) patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/14
- I have installed the patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/17
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Helmut Eller, 2002/03/07
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/07
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Helmut Eller, 2002/03/07
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/07
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Helmut Eller, 2002/03/08
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Kim F. Storm, 2002/03/08
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Helmut Eller, 2002/03/08
- Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support., Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/08