[bedevtalk] recvmsg etc. for BONE?

[Cian Duffy]

On 24/04/07, pete at jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu <
pete at jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Now that the door has been opened (:-)), I have a question myself.
>
> I'm using Ruby (1.8.4) more and more these days, and I'm more amazed
> as I go on, but there's one thing I haven't been able to bring up under
> Beos -- sockets and networking.  Kind of a large hole for some purposes.
>
> The problem is basically that Ruby's 'socket.c' makes use of 'sendmsg'
> and 'recvmsg', which aren't implemented in BONE.  It looks as if they
> *could* be added with a fairly simple wrapper to the other socket calls,
> but I don't think I want to attempt it myself.  So I'm wondering if
> anyone else has done such a thing -- or knows some other way around it?


The abortive WINE porting effort in ~1999 had this problem also, and they
have a partial sendmsg implementation for net_server:
http://bewine.loungenet.org/files.html

However, I thought Ruby already had BeOS networking in older versions?

Cian

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