On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
On Mar 1, 2012, at 5:15 PM, William Herrin wrote:
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
There's no need to break the current functionality of the underlying system calls and libc functions which would be needed by any such library anyway.
Owen,
Point to one sentence written by anybody in this entire thread in which breaking current functionality was proposed.
When you said that:
connect(char *name, uint16_t port) should work
That can't work without breaking the existing functionality of the connect() system call.
You know, when I wrote 'socket=connect("www.google.com",80,TCP);' I stopped and thought to myself, "I wonder if I should change that to 'connectbyname' instead just to make it clear that I'm not replacing the existing connect() call?" But then I thought, "No, there's a thousand ways someone determined to misunderstand what I'm saying will find to misunderstand it. To someone who wants to understand my point, this is crystal clear." -Bill -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004