[Mono-list] Async Networking

[Sterling Hughes]

> 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
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