philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx wrote: >So I start to write some code to add light on last week ML thread about >sockets file descriptor support, client-side library and stack-side interface. > >Here is the result: >http://philippe.houdoin.free.fr/phil/beos/openbeos/net_kit.zip Looks like this will work. it would be interesting to know if the R5 kernel will call the Select and Deselect hooks if you use select on the file descriptor. >BTW, for previous [Open]BeOS network api compatibility, BONE's >libsocket.so and libbind.so, like libbnetapi.so could be easily symlinked to >use this all-in-one libnet.so... Probably not, but do you really want to support bone api? >Should we put aside this fd socket support until R2, Why? Isn't it needed by the current applications? I think a kernel socket modul is not needed, but the rest is. BTW, this is just a comment, I'm not a team member. regards Marcus