> Hello, > I was just going through this month's Dr. Dobb's and found an > interesting question (theme retained, problem changed): > > How can we emulate Asynchronous sockets (Winsock2) for non-windows > platforms? Java is still struggling to do it... or is it that is has no > plans for it? > > Microsoft's dotNet makes use of Winsock2 (as the journal says), but > are > there such tools available for POSIX / Unix-based environments as well? >
For (newer) unixes you have the aio interface, which should be able to handle any io problems/issues (to my knowledge). Most older systems support this via a signal handler. -Sterling > > > Happy hacking, > Gaurav > http://mastergaurav.virtualave.net/iitk > ---------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
