Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: gcl_signal & sockets

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Michael.
> 
> |   - next could be a deeper look into o/file.d to implement 3 things :
> |     - white streams (old GCL streams)
> |     - black streams (file/socket streams operating of file descriptors
> |       instead of using stdio or readline to operate on file pointers)
> |     - interface for Gray streams (user defined streams of mostly
> |       Common Lisp manner)
> 
> I wonder whether whether SSL sockets can be configured to talk with
> 'ordinary' sockets?  I ask because it might provide a way for us to have
> cross platform low level socket code if that is so.
> 

The ssl layer is on top of the ordinary socket layer.  It is
straightoforward to make this transparent to the user.

> You probably already know that Windows diverges from Unix on sockets - the
> functions often appear to be the same but the things you can do with them
> differ:
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winsock/win
> sock/windows_sockets_start_page_2.asp
> 

Haven't looked at this, but .... u da man!

Take care,

> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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