[openbeosnetteam] Re: socket lib...

> The socket library :
> - on a call to open it allocates an area of a given size (say 4096 
> bytes)
> and passes the area_id into the "socket_server" which then just 
> clones it...

Not exactly, there is no need for a socket server - if you mean another 
server as the net_server. There will be the socket library and the 
net_server.

> Also, this won't be pretty but it's possible. Of course the other way 
> of
> doing it would be to use a pipe for read/write and just have use the 
> msgs
> for control functions. In fact that might be better and much faster 
> with
> less bother about having to have huge buffers hanging around.

Well, what's a pipe? Essentially the same as what we're doing, but I 
don't know if it's implemented (or can be implement) as efficient as we 
can do it - we'd just have to pass area_id's + offsets around for 
memory access, no memcpy()s involved (only in the backend for the BSD 
sockets - or the other way around in the net_server).

Adios...
   Axel.

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