On 22.07.2011 15:00, Andy Hume wrote: >> From: mono-devel-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com >> [mailto:mono-devel-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf >> Of Robert Jordan >> Sent: 22 July 2011 12:43 >> To: mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com >> Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Non-TCP/IP socket access >> >> On 22.07.2011 13:08, Andy Hume wrote: >>> Presumably I can't convert my fd to a wapi handle somehow... So is >>> that plan not going to work? :-,( >> >> It won't work. The whole socket machinery assumes type >> AF_UNIX or AF_INET. If you set a fd of some other address >> family type, a lot of nasty things could happen if this check >> wasn't there. >> >> Get/SetSocketOptions, Local/RemoteEndPoint etc. simply don't >> cope with other AF types. They would return garbage at best. >> > I actually don't need to call any of those functions -- and if I were I > could just P/Invoke them...[1] :-,( > > The bit I obviously don't want to have to write myself is anything to do > with I/O. That's a huge amount of difficult work and its all there and > working in Mono and would work for my (SOCK_STREAM) socket if I could > just create the socket somehow. :-,( > > All I need is that wapi handle...[2] Do we think it's impossible to > access it.
It looks like you could be able to create the socket with io-layers's function: [DllImport("__Internal")] static extern int _wapi_socket(int domain, int type, int protocol, IntPtr unused1, int unused2, int unused3); Then assign the returned descriptor via reflection. I'll be shot for this one day ;) Robert _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list