[openbeosnetteam] Re: Integration Q's

> > Well, now have some code that works to a degree, and seems to be a
> > good base
> > to build upon, it's time to start expanding "upwards" again.  So,
> > here are
> > the next round of awkward questions.
>
> Although it's not nice, it's easy.
> R5 just don't support it - you have to come up with your own library
> which understands what sockets are - that's why you have to call
> closesocket() on a socket in R5, not just close().
> The kernel don't know anything about this stuff.

Ah, that bit I understand then...  What about ioctl as other parts of the
kernel support them don't they?

> When we are going towards OpenBeOS, we should really change this.
> This will either be fixed more or less automatically, by moving it into
> the kernel, or we'd have to change the kernel, so that it can provide
> user-level access to fds (with regard to creating, removing, handling).

Is changing the kernel really an option prior to using newos?

david

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