Andrew Coppin wrote: > John Goerzen wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:36:32AM -0700, John A. De Goes wrote: >> >>> The number of applications requiring the implementation of a custom web >>> server is an insignificant fraction of the number of applications >>> requiring a messaging system. I don't think anyone would dispute >>> Haskell's ability to do low-level, raw networking, of the type that few >>> people actually need to do. It's the higher level stuff where there's a >>> huge amount of room for improvement. >>> >> I disagree on both points. >> >> Haskell has had somewhat of a deficit in the low-level networking >> stuff, not even supporting IPv6 in the standard stack until just >> recently. (That is, things like AF_INET6 were not present.) >> >> I think it has pretty much caught up by now though. >> > > Any idea how I get Haskell to send ICMP ECHO packets? (And, obviously, > receive the replies.)
SocketType claims to support Raw, which I think is the conventional means for doing this. Whether all the infrastructure for that is there, I don't know. I have never worked with raw sockets though, so I may be leading you down a dark mugger-laden alley here ;-) -- John _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
