[openbeos] Re: First mail using XEmacs :-)

  • From: "David Reid" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:52:42 +0100

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



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