Re: simultaneously read and write on one socket file
On Jun 13, 10:27 pm, "Ron AF Greve" <me@localhost> wrote:
A possibility is to write some code to buffer
sending/receiving. Then when a process tries to sent it just
writes to the buffer (same for read). Then use 'select' to
listen and read/write on a set of descriptors in a separate
thread to do the actual reading/writing between socket and
buffers. (This is actually how I handle it under MS-Windows.
That's the third solution:-). The reader thread does a select
on the socket and a pipe. When the writer thread has something
to write, it writes something to the pipe, waking up the reader
thread, which then does the actual write.
There's no need for such additional complexity on a Posix
compliant system; I'd be somewhat surprised if Windows required
it as well.
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