Hopefully we'll have select support for both fd's and sockets on the same call in the new net stack and OpenBFS! We will finally rock! > > > Hi folks ! > > > I'm writing this mail from XEmacs (X11) under BeOS (BONE). > > > Sending using direct smtp handler in XEmacs. > > > I finally got sockets to work :^) > > > I hope the future network kit won't be as twisted as > > > net_server+bone :-))) > > > Now if only this X server accepted my azerty keymap... > > > > > > talking about BONE, do the network team intend to be API compatible > > > with it (userapp wise, not about drivers and modules) ? > > > > BONE was mainly BSD compatible, and as we're aiming for that, we > > should be... > That's what I thought. > I haven't looked at the BeSelect library that is in teh X11 port, but if it supports waiting on file descriptors maybe I have a workaround for current net_server for XEmacs. > (socket openning is done in by a specialised func, which returns one filedes > for writing and one for reading, so maybe I could just spawn a socket handler > thread, and return pipes filedes :)) > > > > > > > Or is bone a too "hot" thing we won't include the headers ? > > > (anyway even if not using the same names we still can make something > > > binary compatible using the same values for the same semantics) > > > > Good afternoon! > Ok, I shouldn't have asked it this way :D No, it's just afternoon at the moment...almost evening! david